Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Sunday, January 3, 2016

How does a killer T cell kill its target?

Cambridge university´s new film captures the behaviour of cytotoxic T cells,  the body’s ‘serial killers’, as they hunt down and eliminate cancer cells before moving on to their next target.

Watch the original video
Killer T Cell: The Cancer Assassin

T cell (red) attacking cancer cell (blue).  

Source: YouTube, Cambridge university


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