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Scientists film death of white blood cell for first time and discover alert system

16-06-2015 11:40pm

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In a world first, Melbourne scientists have captured on video each stage of death of a human white blood cell, a phenomenon never seen before and which reveals the cells apparently try to alert their immune system allies that they are dying.

White blood cells are the critical, disease-fighting cells of the immune system which fight bacterial and fungal infections, as well as viruses.

Using time-lapse microscopy, which allows very fast events to be captured by taking hundreds of photographs every second and then viewing them in a sequence at high speed, the La Trobe University scientists saw molecules being ejected from inside the dying white blood cell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBUTtCuzoAs

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/15/scientists-film-death-of-white-blood-cell-for-first-time-and-discover-alert-system

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