red album covers

white blood cells by the white stripes is so vshbwvshsbnsjaomabsj

Our record wall!

I like to hang up the posters that come with our vinyl's next to our record player. So far we have Evanescence, Sublime, The White Stripes, and Mitski! We also bought a Nirvana vinyl but it didn't come with a poster:(

10:55 PM EDT March 13, 2024:

The White Stripes - "Hotel Yorba" From the album White Blood Cells (July 3, 2001)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Bluesy Garage Punk

Shaped by Context

Macrophages – Greek for 'big eaters' – white blood cells of the immune system that engulf and dispose of eg. debris, pathogens and cancer cells, can fuse into giant cells and 'reprogram' function depending on their microenvironment

Read the published research article here

Laboratory of Immunobiology, Department Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, KU Leuven—University of Leuven, Belgium; Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College London, UK

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Published in EMBO Reports, January 2023

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"omg white blood cell is my favorite"

WHICH ONE????

THE STRAIGHT MAN WHO'S DEFINITELY IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MAIN PROTAGONIST???

THE AUTISTIC-ADHD ONE????

THE "I'm italian but no one knows" ONE?????

THE GAY ONE????????

U1146 aka White Blood Cell

I was in a mood to draw my fav boy White Blood Cell from Cells at Work! Love that anime ❤️

Reference pose by mellon_soup

What I imagine my white blood cells are really like

9:12 AM EST February 5, 2024:

The White Stripes - “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground” From the album White Blood Cells (July 3, 2001)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Bluesy Garage Punk

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In a Bind

Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer affecting plasma cells, white blood cells that produce antibodies, causing them to multiply abnormally in the bone marrow. Right now, only half of patients can expect to survive five years after diagnosis, so better treatments are sorely needed. Promising targets include fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs), a multi-functional family of proteins that can pick up lipids, involved in a variety of processes. A recent study found that cultured myeloma cells (pictured, their nuclei in blue) expressed high levels of one member in particular, FABP5 (in red); blocking it reduced cell proliferation, while patients with higher FABP5 levels tended to experience worse outcomes. Inhibiting FABPs more broadly appeared even more effective, improving survival in some mice with myeloma. To build on these results, further research needs to investigate why not all mice responded so well, and whether inhibiting FABPs would be safe and effective in humans.

Written by Emmanuelle Briolat

Image from work by Mariah Farrell and colleagues

Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Health Institute for Research, Scarborough, ME, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, March 2023

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