News tagged with phagocytes
Bacteria with a built-in thermometer
May 20, 2009 |
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Researchers in the "Molecular Infection Biology group" at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and the Braunschweig Technical University could now demonstrate for the first time that bacteria ...
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Crossing the line: how aggressive cells invade the brain (w/ Video)
Nov 05, 2009 |
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In diseases such as multiple sclerosis, cells of the immune system infiltrate the brain tissue, where they cause immense damage. For many years, it was an enigma as to how these cells can escape from the bloodstream. ...
Reactive oxygen's role in metastasis
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research have discovered that reactive oxygen species, such as superoxide and hydrogen peroxide, play a key role in forming invadopodia, cellular protrusions implicated in ...
Trojan horse for ovarian cancer -- nanoparticles turn immune system soldiers against tumor cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 15, 2009 |
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In a feat of trickery, Dartmouth Medical School immunologists have devised a Trojan horse to help overcome ovarian cancer, unleashing a surprise killer in the surroundings of a hard-to-treat tumor.
TV crime drama compound highlights immune cells' misdeeds
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Detectives on television shows often spray crime scenes with a compound called luminol to make blood glow. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have applied the same compound to much smaller ...
A paradigm shift in immune response regulation
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Over the past decade various pieces of the puzzle how signal transmission controls immunity have been coming together. Now, in Cell an international team reports a paradigm shift in the regulation of immune response. Their ...
Soaring or snoring? Fruit fly's immune system responds differently when asleep
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A fruit fly's immune system can tell time—and how hard it punches back against infections depends on whether the fly is snoozing or cruising. The discovery by medical school researchers could ...
Snoring or soaring? Strength of fruit-fly immune system varies
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Dec 14, 2008 |
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A fruit fly's immune system can tell time, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found, and how hard it punches back against infections depends on whether the fly is snoozing or cruising. The discovery ...
New role for natural killers
Aug 27, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of York have discovered a new role for a population of white blood cells, which may lead to improved treatments for chronic infections and cancer.
Biofilms use chemical weapons
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Jul 23, 2008 |
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Bacteria rarely come as loners; more often they grow in crowds and squat on surfaces where they form a community together. These so-called biofilms develop on any surface that bacteria can attach themselves ...
A single VSOP can do a 'proton' magic!
Jun 16, 2008 |
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International research group led by Yasushi Okamura, a professor in Japanese National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, and Peter Larsson, a professor in Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon, US, found ...
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