Origin and differentiation of human memory CD8 T cells after vaccination, 2017, Akondy et al

Paywalled at https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24633

 

I assume that this study did not use humans or human material. It's therefore very unlikely to be relevant. This is sadly not well-known.

 

The title specifies human cells, so I assume it did @MeSci?

 

I hope so!

 

This article, http://www.sciencealert.com/long-term-memory-cytotoxic-immune-cells-explained, says "used a hydrogen isotope to label white blood cells inside volunteers"

And here is an article in the same edition of Nature that talks about the two T-cell based studies that I've linked today, which says "Akondy et al.1 studied people who received a vaccine for yellow fever virus" - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08280-8

so looks like human cells definitely used.

 

Thanks, Andy!