🧬 Rethinking Neutrophils: From Lone Cells to Living Systems 🧠⚔️
For over a century, neutrophils were seen as short-lived foot soldiers of immunity.
This new Cell review reframes them as something far more interesting: a coordinated, adaptive collective.
✨ Key ideas:
• Short-lived cells, long-term memory
• Two compartments: granulopoietic + mature
• Plastic, circadian, tissue-adaptive behavior
• Major implications for inflammation, cancer, and immunotherapy
A powerful example of how systems thinking can transform classical immunology.
📖 Worth a deep read: The Neutrophil Collective — Cell (2025)
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