MEDICAL IMAGES

"Walking macrophage"


A major player in the body's immune system, this white blood cell is probing an airsac in a human lung with pneumonia. It was looking for debris, bacteria or other foreign matter that it would have ingested like a tiny vacuum cleaner. x7000

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Dee Breger
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
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