image: NK cells that act like "robot nannies." This artistic rendering depicts that NK cells (yellow cells) nourish fetal development by secreting growth-promoting factors like "robotic nannies," and the transcription factor PBX1 is a powerful engine driving PTN (blue) and OGN (white) production. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Apr. 1, 2020, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Zhou at University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, China; and colleagues was titled, " PBX1 expression in uterine natural killer cells drives fetal growth." view more
Credit: [Credit: Guoyan Wang & Lei Chen]