share information Immune cells like bees

When bees find new information as a new source of honey, to share the news with other bees when they return to the hive. Now, a new study from the U.S. suggests that the immune system's T cells have a similar behavior in the coordination of responses to pathogens and vaccines.

Scientists at the University of California - San Francisco (UCSF) write about their findings in the online edition of Nature Immunology March 10.

Lead author Matthew Krummel, Professor of Pathology at UCSF. He said in a statement that while T cells are a dance for their peers in the same cell as the bees do when they have bee companions news to share, if they come together to share critical information in a similar manner.

"They are grouped together in order to share information, share what they have learned about the new pathogen or a vaccine, which in turn helps the immune system mounts a coordinated response to the foreign material," explains she said, adding that the discovery could help develop new treatments to fight against the disease.
Krummel and colleagues call this the "critical period."