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"Duke scientists discovered an abundance of missing T-cells trapped within the bone marrow."

"an abundance of missing"

I know everyone makes mistakes, but I can't even fathom writing this sentence and thinking it sounded good

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I guess it sounds alright to me? I didn't read the article, so I might be missing the context, but it sounds like there were fewer T-cells than they thought there should be, and they found that a bunch of them were in the bone marrow when they didn't expect it.

Oh... yeah that makes sense now. Very confusing wording though. I thought that they were ONLY saying "there were a lot less T-cells in the bone marrow."

I would have said: "Increased T-cells were found trapped in the bone marrow, a possible explanation for the decreased T-cells in the brain."

I opened my closet to look for my boots and there they were: gone!

Gone! Where?

I think it reads fine, especially in context. It could be restated, "The missing T-cells were discovered, in abundance, trapped within the bone marrow."

I think they mean they found, in the bone marrow, an abundance of the missing T-cells (missing from the brain?)

Abundance of cells. This is a properly formed English sentence.

It reads ok to me (English speaker).

The T cells were missing from the brain and the rest of the body because they were trapped in the bone marrow.

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