neutrophil in Podcasts
personA type of immune cell that responds quickly to infections and is important in immune defense.
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Why Daylight Boosts Immunity
This is immunologist Jennifer Hurley at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She's talking about a special immune cell called a neutrophil that's really important at fighting off infections. And she says scientists hadn't really studied circadian rhythms in neutrophils because they die so fast.