Tag: Ulrich Von Andrian-Werburg

  • Nation & World

    Blood stem cells fight invaders

    No other stem cell is more thoroughly understood than the blood, or hematopoietic, stem cell. These occasional and rare cells, scattered sparingly throughout the marrow and capable of replenishing an…

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  • Nation & World

    Innate signal sparks homing of T cells

    The results of three studies published together in the Aug. 31, 2003 online edition of Nature Immunology help explain the uncanny ability of T cells to home to problem areas…

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  • Nation & World

    Remote-control immunity up close

    When we receive a wound, disease-fighting cells rush to the scene to do combat with bodily invaders. But how does this work? When we receive a wound, cells near the…

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