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Video: Killer T Cells In Action

Apr 21, 2022

The immune system is immensly powerful and beautiful. Above is a video of a killer T cell destroying an ovarian cancer cell, captured by a spinning disc confocal microscope. This process takes about an hour, but the video has been sped up.

What’s happening? The killer T cell (pictured in purple to the left) attaches to the large cancerous cell and injects toxins which cause significant inflammation within the cell, causing it to die.

Video credit: Alex Ritter, @RitterLab

-Sidharth

One Reply to “Video: Killer T Cells In Action”

  1. Amber A. says:
    April 23, 2022 at 4:02 PM

    This is incredible Sid! Does the immune reaction to every type of cancer cell look the same? Thank you for sharing this. Good work.

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