New 'atlas' for dendritic cells creates order in international nomenclature

For her Ph.D. at VUB and KULeuven, Aarushi Caro created a kind of systematics for dendritic cells, a special group of immune cells in the fight against cancer. Until now, there was a lot of confusion about the different types of dendritic cells. "Scientists worldwide use different names for similar cells, which makes it difficult to compare them," Caro explains. To address that problem, she used advanced techniques to map a comprehensive overview of dendritic cells in both mice and humans and across multiple cancer types.