Elusive Neutrophil Progenitor Found to Promote Tumor Formation

Neutrophils are the most abundant type of circulating immune system cell, and they act as the body’s earliest form of defense against infection. We know that neurophils originate in the bone marrow (BM), but scientists haven’t, to date, been able to find a progenitor that only gives rise to this type of white blood cell. Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology have now used advanced biomarker analysis and RNA sequencing techniques to identify neutrophil-specific