A Tiny Flatworm Just Revealed An Entirely New Type Of Immune Cell That Blows Itself Up To Fight Disease

In five decades of modern immunology, scientists have catalogued an extraordinary variety of ways that cells kill each other. T cells. Natural killer cells. Neutrophils. Macrophages. Each with its own strategy, its own speed, its own precision. Stanford researchers just added something to that list that nobody predicted — a cell that simply explodes. The […]