The Cell Death Case Files: How Macrophages Get Reprogrammed Inside Tumors

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Part of The Cell Death Case Files, a series that reads the biology of dying cells like a detective story. This case is a six-slide mystery for general readers, walking through apoptosis, efferocytosis, and a new forensic tool called effero-score that reveals what immune cells get up to inside a tumor when the evidence keeps disappearing.

Read the full blog here: https://www.jainuajit.com/portfolio/efferocytosis-in-cancer-effero-seq/ Source: Roi Balaban et al, Efferocytosis induces proangiogenic function and chromatin remodeling in tumor-associated macrophages.Sci. Immunol.11,eaed1544(2026).DOI:10.1126/sciimmunol.aed1544

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