white blood cell
Intestine crucial to function of immune cells
Researchers at the University of Toronto have found an explanation for how the intestinal tract influences a key component of the immune system to prevent infection, offering a potential clue to the cause of autoimmune disorders like…
Stretched rubber offers simpler method for assembling nanowires
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a cheap and easy method for assembling nanowires, controlling their alignment and density. The researchers hope the findings will foster additional research into a range of device applica…
New study upends thinking about how liver disease develops
In the latest of a series of related papers, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Austria and elsewhere, present a new and more definitive explanation of how fibrotic cells form, multiply …
There’s a new ‘officer’ in the infection control army
Johns Hopkins scientists have identified a previously unrecognized step in the activation of infection-fighting white blood cells, the main immunity troops in the body’s war on bacteria, viruses and foreign proteins.
“It’s as if we knew many of …
Researchers describe first functioning ‘lipidome’ of mouse macrophage
For the first time, scientists have described not only the identities and quantities of fat species in a living mammalian cell — in this case, a mouse macrophage or white blood cell — but they also report how these lipids react and change over…
