27 October 2024
More Than Immunity
As skin develops before birth it's rich in innate (a first response, rather than an adapting form of defence) immune cells, including macrophages. By creating a reference atlas of pre-natal human skin (7–17 weeks post-conception), combining single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (locating active genes) data, this study finds that macrophages play a role beyond providing immunity, driving the development of vessels in the skin
Read the published research article here
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- Still from video from work by Nusayhah Hudaa Gopee, Elena Winheim and Bayanne Olabi, and colleagues
- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Nature, October 2024
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