UW News
David Parichy
February 16, 2017
Immune cell serves as an essential communications link for migrating cells
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Scientists at the University of Washington have discovered that a common type of cell in the vertebrate immune system plays a unique role in communication between other cells. It turns out that these cells, called macrophages, can transmit messages between non-immune cells.
November 6, 2014
Zebrafish stripped of stripes
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Within weeks of publishing surprising new insights about how zebrafish get their stripes, University of Washington researchers now explain how to “erase” them.