Immune cells tackle a human obstacle course

Immune cells inside the body need to make their way through densely packed tissues, squeezing through gaps and finding the most efficient route. During metastasis, cancer cells may make use of a similar type of locomotion. Now, experiments reveal how the cells probe different paths and use their bulky nucleus to gauge the size of gaps.

3rd April 2019

[Pewpshmear]

That was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

[orb]

Beautiful. The way the cell probes multiple pathways, what an amazing sight.

[UnusGrunus]

Who knew that white blood cells where little slimey bois squeezing through your body like that, i love it

[isaT]

This must be the most underrated video on youtube!

[Fido-vmzi]

Wish humanity was like our cells. Idk how many-but trillions/billions of different types working together.

[medicwebber]

Absolutely FASCINATING!!
Thank you for posting!

[Polaris]

Amazing tiny fighters inside our body 😄

[kawabkaiser]

I swear to god guys this is like falling in love😍, much appreciation of every single tiny effort that you guys are doing. so we can see and live this beauty please keep making more and more🙏🙏.

[hopolo]

shattered my view of white blood cells being rigid and round.

[infinitystem]

Amazing video, it is fascinating to think that we are a collection of all these microscopic beings.

[angelidez]

Absolutely amazing...and here I thought kinases were cool, this blows them right out of the water!

[kevinwee]

This is so cool as we can see how cell migrates in such details. Can you recommend any nature paper/video that shows the change of actin cytoskeleton (perhaps using fluorescence) in cell movement?

[devashishbahri]

This makes me feel special and good about myself somehow

[WadcaWymiaru]

"Speed through the body?"
Paramecium: i am a joke to you?

[Egor_Balashov]

Why only 20 000 views? It's great science discovery!!!

[mrniceguy]

02:03 "...the cell will pull itself apart". Damn, that's brutal!

[hammoodraad]

Omg all the organelles still normal while locomotion !!! And i think maybe the dendritic cells will be the most effective for this work

[surajitdas]

Just amazing!!! this can be a way to combat against the deadly cancer cells.

[sonalchaudhary]

I am not clear on how this will help treat cancer. What ever way they might find to block cancer spreading might also stop the immune cells from working. Good if it works

[Hemantkumar]

Sperms will be always the one that wins in terms of speed