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  "id": 4891324,
  "title": "Imaging technique reveals the metabolic states of individual immune cells",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/imaging-technique-reveals-the-metabolic-states-of-individual-immune",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-01T15:00:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-imaging-technique-reveals-metabolic-states.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "When a patient is facing certain cancers or an immune condition, clinicians turn to white blood cells for clues about the progression of both diseases and their treatments. From a standard blood draw, a clinical lab isolates peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), which are predominantly immune cells, and then counts the abundance of different cell types, along with some basic measures of how…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}