Catching a natural killer in the act
Microscopic images of disease-fighting cells may one day help treat
immune deficiency disorders. Jordan Orange of the Children’s Hospital
of Philadelphia and colleagues used a superpowerful new microscope to
watch how immune cells called natural killer cells feed a poison pill
called a lytic granule to tumors or virus-infected cells.
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