Neutrophils are my favorite part of the immune system. I’m paraphrasing the book Immune–an amazing book that’s totally worth your time–with this example.
You’re breaking into a museum to steal art. A security guard spots you, calls out on the radio for more security guards and charges you screaming! The guard then rips its own organs and swings them at you as weapons. As the guard is pummeling you with it’s organs you can see it’s getting tired, all of the sudden it explodes into Spider-Man type web made up of it’s body to keep you from escaping as other screaming security guards start to hit you with their organs!
Metal AF right?
I absolutely love that book. It has brought back my enthusiasm for immunology, which had somewhat faded after a few years of studying.
That’s delightful to hear! As a layman I wondered how the book was for people in the field. I just read it for entertainment myself.
Na, all cells are cool as shit and are phenomenal at doing their highly specialized jobs. Except when they aren’t, then I hate them
Fuck cancer!
Your work supervisor has shed a single tear of joy.
I’ve been watching a lot of Cells at Work on Netflix. Neutrophil U-1146 is a good dude.
It looks like it has a funny smiley face
