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Cells at Work!
はたらく細胞
2018 · TV series · 24 min episodes · 2 seasons
AnimationActionAdventureComedy
This is a story about you. A tale about the inside of your body... According to a new study, the human body consists of approximately 37 trillion cells. These cells are hard at work every day within a world that is your body. From the oxygen-carrying red blood cells to the bacteria-fighting white blood cells, get to know the unsung heroes and the drama that unfolds inside of you! It's the oddly relatable and interesting story that is the life of cells!
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For edutainment, there's a manga/anime called Cells at Work (https://mangarock.to/manga/1684/cells-at-work/first-chapter#lg=1&slide=0) whose final (June 2021) installment covers Covid-19. Includes a character called Killer T Cell, https://cellsatwork.fandom.com/wiki/Killer_T_Cell_(Squad_Leader)
> Killer T Cell is loud, obnoxious, and quick-tempered, resulting in rivalries with many cells. He also despises it when a non-white blood cell forms a friendship or relationship with one of his kind. As an immature thymocyte he went through training at Thymus school, where apprentice cells like himself learn to become Mature Thymocytes.
Season 1 is streaming: https://www.netflix.com/title/81028791
Yep, it is competing for research resources and media attention.
This opinion piece used the phrase "T Cells: Warriors of SARS-CoV-2 Infection", https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906(20)30260-X
UK Science Museum 2-pager with diagrams (https://www.immunology.org/public-information/bitesized-immunology/systems-and-processes/t-cell-activation) and UCB lecture slides (http://mcb.berkeley.edu/courses/mcb150/Lecture15/Lecture15(6).pdf)
Maybe vendors (e.g. https://www.rndsystems.com/research-area/t-cell-kits) would support a T-cell microsite, with dedicated sections for science journalists, academics and industry scientists. A vendor created this poster on T-cell subsets: https://docs.abcam.com/pdf/immunology/t_cells_the_usual_subsets.pdf
This 2018 effort looks useful, https://github.com/hammerlab/t-cell-guide
> We provide practical hints and tips on basic cellular and molecular techniques for handling primary human T cells. We hope that this guide will serve as a reference point to evaluate, discuss, and improve current practices in T cell culturing and manipulation.
Oh wow, there are T cell cartoons :)
https://cellcartoons.net/character/cd8tcell & https://cellcartoons.net/character/cd4tcell
And a manga/anime called Cells at Work! (https://mangarock.to/manga/1684/cells-at-work/first-chapter#lg=1&slide=0) whose final (June 2021) installment covers Covid-19. There's also a character called Killer T Cell, https://cellsatwork.fandom.com/wiki/Killer_T_Cell_(Squad_Leader)
> Killer T Cell is loud, obnoxious, and quick-tempered, resulting in rivalries with many cells. He also despises it when a non-white blood cell forms a friendship or relationship with one of his kind. As an immature thymocyte he went through training at Thymus school, where apprentice cells like himself learn to become Mature Thymocytes.
Season 1 is streaming: https://www.netflix.com/title/81028791
Possible seeds for a github-pages microsite..
Cells in your immune system are programmed to follow a set of rules in order to attack foreign invaders. This is very effective in defeating bacteria and viruses. It is not so effective against allergens like pollen and dust. Cells will continuously produce antibodies and histamines to attack these particles to the point where it overwhelms the rest of the body and causes collateral damage.
If you want to see a fictional representation of this, watch Cells at Work episode 5.