{"id":4114,"date":"2015-05-19T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2015-05-19T09:58:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T14:58:17","slug":"cancer-killing-cells-captured-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/cancer-killing-cells-captured-on-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer killing cells captured on film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4116\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/screencapture_tcells.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4116\" class=\"wp-image-4116\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/screencapture_tcells.png\" alt=\"A screen capture of the video showing cytotoxic T cells (shown as green and orange in the video) attacking a cancer cell (blue). The video also shows cytotoxic T cells attacking virally infected cells, shown in red. (Video credit: University of Cambridge).\" width=\"475\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/screencapture_tcells.png 574w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/screencapture_tcells-300x153.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen capture of the video showing cytotoxic T cells (shown as green and orange in the video) attacking a cancer cell (blue). The video also shows cytotoxic T cells attacking virally infected cells, shown in red. (Video credit: University of Cambridge).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Researchers have captured video of immune cells hunting and destroying cancer and virally-infected cells. The footage was captured using high-resolution 3D time-lapse multi-colour imaging.<\/p>\n<p>T cells, a type of white-blood cell, can recognize antigens on the surface of certain cancerous and infected cells. The video shows these T cells (seen in orange or green) moving around quickly, then sending out protrusions to scan the surface of nearby cells. If a membrane protrusion detects antigens it will inject cytotoxins, poisonous proteins, into the sick cell.<\/p>\n<p>In the video you can see the sick cells shrink and die before the T cell moves on to find another target.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ntk8XsxVDi0?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">original research paper<\/span>\u00a0the video is from was published in <em>Immunity\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 19<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>, and is available upon request.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Alex Ritter, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have captured video of immune cells hunting and destroying cancer and virally-infected cells. The footage was captured using high-resolution 3D time-lapse multi-colour imaging. T cells, a type of white-blood cell, can recognize antigens on the surface of certain cancerous and infected cells. The video shows these T cells (seen in orange or green) moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[49,51,2435,53,2434],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-cancer","tag-health","tag-immune-system","tag-medicine","tag-t-cells"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/screencapture_tcells.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-14m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}