White blood cells in transparent embryos
Leiden molecular cell biologists in the research group of Annemarie Meijer have discovered novel early macrophage-specific genes in zebrafish, including a signal transducer pivotal for the migration of macrophages in the innate immune response to bacterial infection. Their findings were published on April 27 in the medical journal Blood, with postdoc Anna Zakrzewska and PhD student Chao Cui as shared first authors of the paper.
