@thebiocosmos: Have you seen this fantastic and iconic video of a neutrophil chasing a bacterium? I bet you have. You probably haven't taken an immunology or a cell migration class if you haven't shown this video! The video serves a fantastic introduction to how cells migrates and also demonstrates the effect of chemoattractants on steering a cell's direction. This is how immune cells "know" where to find the injury in your body, where the pathogens, and where dying cells are, all thanks to chemotaxis. But do you know who was the original author of this video? It was made by Dr David Elliot Rogers of Vanderbilt University. David enrolled at Ohio State University in 1942 and graduated from Miami University of Ohio in 1944. He was then accepted to Cornell University and graduated with an MD at just 22 years of age! He then completed his residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He served as chief of infectious diseases at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Centre and in 1959, at the age of 33, he became Head of Medicine and physician in chief at Vanderbilt University. This was also where this timeless video was made! #biology #immunesystem #stem #medicine #Science

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