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Dec 2023

1h 15m

Immune 75: Ang Cui unveils the cytokine ...

VINCENT RACANIELLO

About this episode

Ang Cui joins Immune to discuss her career and her work on establishing the Immune Dictionary, a compendium of single-cell transcriptomic profiles of more than 17 immune cell types in response to each of 86 cytokines (>1,400 cytokine-cell type combinations) in mouse lymph nodes in vivo.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cynthia Leifer, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Ang Cui

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Immune Dictionary (Nature)
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