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New study overturns orthodoxy on how macrophages kill bacteria

For decades, microbiologists assumed that macrophages, immune cells that can engulf and poison bacteria and other pathogens, killed microbes by damaging their DNA. A new study from the University of Illinois ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

Apr 27, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 0