Out of Commission (VIDEO)

Boston Children's Hospital

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Dead macrophages (stained blue) don't make good infection fighters, unlike their living kin (green). It turns out macrophages don't need to die in order to release IL-1.

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Charles Evavold, Boston Children's Hospital

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