Feb. 20 (UPI) --Scientists have designed a new model to identify which organisms are capable of consuming other cells through a process called phagocytosis. The research, detailed this week in the ...

Microglia tend to get off-kilter in Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Now, researchers in Tony Wyss-Coray’s lab at Stanford University believe they have discovered a means of restoring ...

A previously unidentified physically activated pathway for cellular uptake in the body’s immune defence system could predate commonly recognized receptor-mediated processes. The pathway relies on ...

IBEC’s Principal Investigator César Rodriguez-Emmenegger has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to develop Phagocytic Synthetic Cells (PSCs) to fight antibiotic-resistant pathogens. César ...

Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data of the immunotherapeutic TLR-9 agonist MGN1703 from healthy volunteers and cancer patients. A novel combinatorial therapy using cytolytic NK cells and ...

Neutrophils produce “spider webs” that trap invading bacteria and improve macrophages’ ability to phagocytose and kill harmful pathogens. A research team at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center ...

As microbes invade the human body, phagocytic cells such as macrophages spring into action to clear the intruders. These cells extend arm-like projections and wrap them around the microbes before ...

Phagocytosis is a key mechanism for removing apoptotic cells and intruders. While this process is essential to maintain tissue homeostasis and immune function, researchers have limited technologies to ...

The first line of immune defense against invading pathogens like bacteria are macrophages, immune cells that engulf every foreign object that crosses their way and kill their prey with acid. However, ...