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Hacking the ‘Cellular Immunology Agency’: T cells caught in the act

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The identification of T cells recognizing antigen has historically depended on live-cell imaging. Through the use of neural network–based image analysis, T cell–priming events can now be identified in fixed archival tissues.

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Fig. 1: Liasrki and colleagues use CDM3 to identify antigen-recognition events in the kidneys of patients with lupus nephritis, revealing a role for pDCs in presenting antigen to CD4+ T cells1.

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    Matthew H. Spitzer

  2. Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Matthew H. Spitzer

  3. Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA, USA

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