Osaka researchers found CD4 cytotoxic T lymphocytes rise from 4 percent to 17.6 percent of circulating T cells across the oldest age brackets. Outside immunologists want function, not just counts.
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A team at the National University of Singapore primed cells on soft or stiff gels, then made them squeeze through microchannels. The soft-primed ones were over 60% faster days later.
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A Trinity College Dublin and UCD team says dietary yeast beta-glucan retrained bone marrow progenitors in obese mice, restoring anti-tumour immunity that weight loss alone did not.
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Researchers report in Cell Reports that leafminer damage recruits root bacteria, which make later cowpeas emit a wasp attractant. How long the soil holds it is unmeasured.
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Max Planck researchers report that oligodendrocyte precursors release CRH near brain injury for about three days. Remove its receptor and you get more precursors but fewer mature cells.
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