ID3 provides career counseling for blood progenitors, driving the creation of gamma-delta T cells
Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 14:21
in Biology & Nature
Like an unusually forceful career counselor, the Id3 protein decides the fate of a given white blood cell precursor, according to researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Their findings, published today in the journal Immunity, describe how Id3 directs blood cell progenitors to become gamma-delta T cells.