News tagged with infected macrophages
Salmonella infection, but not as we know it
Researchers at Cambridge University have shed new light on a common food poisoning bug. Using real-time video microscopy, coupled with mathematical modelling, they have changed our assumptions about Salmonella and how it ...
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Research shows why one bacterial infection is so deadly in cystic fibrosis patients
Scientists have found why a certain type of bacteria, harmless in healthy people, is so deadly to patients with cystic fibrosis.
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Rejuvenating the old immune system
By comparing the immune responses of both, young and old mice, to bacterial infection they found that the number of macrophages, one of the major cell populations involved in the elimination of infecting bacteria, decreases ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Findings turn events in early TB infection on their head, may lead to new therapy
Masses of immune cells that form as a hallmark of tuberculosis (TB) have long been thought to be the body's way of trying to protect itself by literally walling off the bacteria. But a new study in the January 9th issue of ...
Biology /
Jan 08, 2009 |
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