5 life lessons from your immune system

Jan 31, 2019

This digitally-colorized scanning electron micrograph depicts four magenta-colored, spherical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria in the process of being phagocytized by a blue-colored human white blood cells Image: REUTERS

Joanna Groom

Laboratory Head,, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

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Dendritic cells form a surveillance network – shown here as reddish stained cells in skin. Image: Ed Uthman (Houston, TX, USA) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

This 3D image of a lymph node shows the cells that produce chemokines in red and blue. Image: Joanna Groom/WEHI,Author provided

The colours in this magnified slice through a lymph node show different cell types interacting as part of an immune response. Image: Joanna Groom/WEHI,Author provided

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