White Blood Cell Chases Bacteria
Magnified white Blood Cell Chases Bacteria. This is happening in your body all the time!
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2 Posted 36 days ago by TitvsCaivs
This should be in the awesome category, because this just is Absolutely Awesome.
6 Posted 36 days ago by tomas
#5 With a really good webcam! (Joking)
They use a camera attached to a microscope.
7 Posted 36 days ago by dvh
Wow. Truly amazing. The one thing that is missing is some epic background music like Carl Orff - O fortuna (http://www.snotr.com/video/1955)
8 Posted 36 days ago by aziwa
anybody else notice that it missed a bacteria and it presumably got away? 
10 Posted 36 days ago by prankphonecall
#8 I think it's a case of the tortise and the hair... eventually that fat blob of a white blood cell will catch everything...
14 Posted 36 days ago by patriotaus (moderator)
the white blood cell moves via chemotaxis, meaning it follows chemicals how ever it knows not to go two ways at once but can still phagocytose and endocytose as many bacteria or protozoans as it wants (or can fit on its cell membrane).
at 0:07 you can kinda see the pseudopodia trying to follow the other bacteria before it decided to go for the other guy
16 Posted 36 days ago by patriotaus (moderator)
judging by the size compared to the erythrocytes (weird looking ones) i would assume so
17 Posted 36 days ago by Spinter
^^wow the mods know their stuff hehe...
I know I shouldn't but I was kinda rooting for the little guy at first before I realized what was going on 
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was i the only one that hoped the poor little bacteria got away20 Posted 36 days ago by ringmaster
Nobody commented #15 and #16, therefore I reset the vote from minus to zero. I look forward to more medical stuff.
21 Posted 36 days ago by blackd
#19 Your body, i.e. YOU, do this all the time you should feel very depressed for the millions of "poor little" bacteria you destroy.
23 Posted 36 days ago by archis
My body has so many loyal white Blood Cell, i should make a party for them.
26 Posted 35 days ago by medicino
actually it's digesting the bacteria not only to kill it but also to have small pieces so antibodies can be created, thats why the macrophage only chases one...and by the swelling of the red cells you can tell it took quite sometime for this to happen.
32 Posted 34 days ago by patriotaus (moderator)
Some of us have actually done courses on immunology and haematology along with bacteriology, parasitology, and mycology. But hey there is absolutely nothing wrong with wiki.
34 Posted 33 days ago by Phil-Lloyd
You seem like a good candidate for some radically liberal activist group if you think:
"Animals are killing all the bacteria! Save the bacteria! Kill all the animals!"
39 Posted 6 days ago by KaiksKan
Some 'Benny Hill' music was playing in my head, wish the uploader had added that so I don't feel so mental.
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1 Posted 36 days ago by XiQ
Cool