High-resolution microscope movie - a Natural Killer (NK) white blood cell contacts a diseased cell
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NK cell proteins are essential to detecting the diseased cells like cancers. Here they organise into a ring within which 'killing' granules are delivered to the diseased cell. Narration by Dr Alice Brown, movie compiled by Warwick Bromley.
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