TweetVery interesting read. However, remember, In -vitro studies are a good beginning but until in- vivo studies are done with good randomized clinical trials, we don't really know how this will apply in a biological organism. The problem with studying monocytes or any infection fighting cells in a petri dish is you lose the symphony of coordinating hormones and signals that turn off and off immune cells that are released by the other immune fighting cells that reside in the body. Just pick up a textbook on immunology. The monocytes do not act alone. That is why 80% of all drug clinical trials end when we get to stage I or II, because what happens in a petri dish, doesn't translate to what happens in a living breathing organism.