“…Granulocytes, including eosinophils, neutrophils, and basophils, have diverse and critical roles in disease propagation, including clearing pathogens and initiating inflammatory processes in cancer (Carruale et al, 2019), autoimmunity (Sharma and Bayry, 2015), and allergy (Li et al, 2016). The rarest of granulocytic cells, basophils, were first discovered in 1879 by Paul Erlich using conventional light microscopy (Chirumbolo, 2012), but their functions remained largely obscure until they were found to release histamine upon binding immunoglobulin E (IgE) via high-affinity IgE receptors (Ishizaka et al, 1972(Ishizaka et al, , 1973(Ishizaka et al, , 1979.…”