Novel microcopy methods used to study tiny traction forces during T-cell activation – News-Medical.net

Highly complicated processes constantly take place in our body to keep pathogens in check: The T-cells of our immune system are busy searching for antigens – suspicious molecules that fit exactly into certain receptors of the T-cells like a key into a lock. This activates the T-cell and the defense mechanisms of the immune system are set in motion.
How this process takes place at the molecular level is not yet well understood. What is now clear, however, is that not only chemistry plays a role in…

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