29/12/2025
Feed your brain too this winter, not just your belly. Hear about a breakthrough that changes how we study immunity.
Carmine Cristinzio (ETH Zurich, Prof. Annette Oxenius, ) shows how FluidFM enables the first single cell observation of asymmetric division in CD8 T cells, a phenomenon previously inferred only at population level.🔬
• Isolate sister cells immediately after asymmetric division
• Sample tiny amounts of cytoplasm to detect molecular differences
• Track fate over time: does one become memory while the other becomes effector?
• Prove, at single cell resolution, what hasn’t been directly seen before
“This lets us isolate cells right after division to determine if one becomes a memory cell while the other an effector cell, something never done before.”
This single-cell precision could reshape our understanding of immune memory formation.
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