We need to talk about neutrophils

Over the past 15 years, our understanding of neutrophils has undergone an enormous shift – particularly for those of us who work in adaptive immunology. For many of us, neutrophils pre-2005 were simple cells, indiscriminate killers which shot first and asked questions never. They responded rapidly and died within hours, meaning we did not consider them in our models of complicated adaptive immunity or of chronic inflammatory disease. Opinions...