White Blood Cell Chases Bacteria

Magnified white Blood Cell Chases Bacteria. This is happening in your body all the time!

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+16 1. XiQ commented 14 years ago

Cool :(|)
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+50 2. TitvsCaivs commented 14 years ago

This should be in the awesome category, because this just is Absolutely Awesome.
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+21 3. BigBang commented 14 years ago

gotcha!
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+5 4. MattHu commented 14 years ago

Thts just amazing
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+7 5. badboy007 commented 14 years ago

what the hell lol
how did they record it
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+8 6. tomas commented 14 years ago

#5 With a really good webcam! (Joking)

They use a camera attached to a microscope.
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+2 7. dvh commented 14 years ago

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)
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+2 8. aziwa commented 14 years ago

anybody else notice that it missed a bacteria and it presumably got away? :)
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+5 9. dvh commented 14 years ago

#8 it obviously cannot choose 2 at one time
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+2 10. prankphonecall commented 14 years ago

#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...
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+7 11. timppi commented 14 years ago

#8 i doubt it's the only white blood cell around
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-3 12. aziwa commented 14 years ago

pfff.. if i was that white blood cell i would have caught both of them! :) lol
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+10 13. sizzling commented 14 years ago

I love you white blood cell!
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+8 14. patriotaus commented 14 years ago

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
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+2 15. NucleoVega commented 14 years ago

is dat sum macrophage?
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+2 16. patriotaus commented 14 years ago

judging by the size compared to the erythrocytes (weird looking ones) i would assume so
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+6 17. Spinter commented 14 years ago

^^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 :D
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+16 18. JaeMarie commented 14 years ago

I think this one needs some "Pac Man" audio added to it ;) .
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0 19. Edyy commented 14 years ago

:'( was i the only one that hoped the poor little bacteria got away
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0 20. ringmaster commented 14 years ago

Nobody commented #15 and #16, therefore I reset the vote from minus to zero. I look forward to more medical stuff.
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0 21. blackd commented 14 years ago

#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.
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-1 22. zylosxx commented 14 years ago

Wow pretty cool
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0 23. archis commented 14 years ago

My body has so many loyal white Blood Cell, i should make a party for them.
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-2 24. deenajs commented 14 years ago

1-0
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0 25. badboy007 commented 14 years ago

so these things are alive ?? it looks like an ant
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+1 26. medicino commented 14 years ago

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.
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0 27. MiNo commented 14 years ago

tag. you're it.
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0 28. RandomPixels commented 14 years ago

OWNAGE :D
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0 29. Urmensch commented 14 years ago

My name is Legion: for we are many.
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+1 30. Tabur commented 14 years ago

YOU CANT ESCAPE!!! NOM NOM NOM!!! :(|)
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-3 31. irishgek commented 14 years ago

The mods know wiki ;) and looks like that little piggie got away , amazing thow but check this one for freaky . .

http://www.bacteria-world.com/white-blood-cell.jpg
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0 32. patriotaus commented 14 years ago

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.
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-3 33. hihahihaho commented 14 years ago

sorry but i think it's really boring :|
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+1 34. Phil-Lloyd commented 14 years ago

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!"
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0 35. Deblaauwn commented 14 years ago

#17 you have to have a degree in biology to become a moderator :D
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0 36. nooitaf (admin) commented 14 years ago

NATURE ROCKS !!! :D
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0 37. coyob commented 14 years ago

Imagine how rich your body is, and you don't even know it. ::(|)
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0 38. Usdevildoggmc commented 14 years ago

LMAO @ #5 .........
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0 39. KaiksKan commented 14 years ago

Some 'Benny Hill' music was playing in my head, wish the uploader had added that so I don't feel so mental.