Not exact matches
«Unlike previous studies we
isolated different immune
cell types from the actual site of disease to determine whether
specific subsets of immune
cells (
specific T
cell groups) have equal sensitivity to vitamin D.»
Johannes Scheid, a student in Nussenzweig's lab,
isolated it several years ago from an HIV - infected patient whose immune system had an exceptional ability to neutralize HIV in the blood by preventing the virus from infecting and destroying a
specific type of immune
cells, called CD4
cells, in patients.
Researchers had developed the technologies needed to create organoids years before — how to grow
cells in culture, how to
isolate stem
cells from human tissue, and how to coax the stem
cells, undifferentiated and immature, to become
specific types of
cells at later stages of development.