Researchers Find Elusive Source of Most Abundant Immune Cell
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 12:00
in Biology & Nature
Neutrophils--short-lived, highly mobile and versatile--outnumber all other immune cells circulating through the blood stream. Now, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology identified a progenitor of neutrophils in the bone marrow of mice and humans and tied it to cancer-promoting activities.