Immune Cells Halt Fungal Infection by Triggering Spore Suicide (VIDEO)

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Video depicting host induction of fungal programmed cell death and its role in lung immunity against ubiquitous inhaled fungal spores. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 8, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Shlezinger at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY, and colleagues was titled, "Sterilizing immunity in the lung relies on targeting fungal apoptosis-like programmed cell death."

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Generated by Terry Helms, Medical Illustrator, Department of Communications, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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