🧬 Rethinking Neutrophils: From Lone Cells to Living Systems 🧠⚔️

For over a century, neutrophils were seen as short-lived foot soldiers of immunity.

This new Cell review reframes them as something far more interesting: a coordinated, adaptive collective.

✨ Key ideas:

• Short-lived cells, long-term memory

• Two compartments: granulopoietic + mature

• Plastic, circadian, tissue-adaptive behavior

• Major implications for inflammation, cancer, and immunotherapy

A powerful example of how systems thinking can transform classical immunology.

📖 Worth a deep read: The Neutrophil Collective — Cell (2025)

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