When cancer cells begin to die within tumors, they expose signals on their surface that indicate they are dying. Macrophages then detect these signals and engage in phagocytosis, where they eat the ...

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 ...

A tandem signaling process turns ordinary cells into an efficient cleanup crew. Billions of our cells die every day to make way for the growth of new ones. Most of these goners are cleaned up by ...

Study will advance into expanded patient populations with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and myelofibrosis (MF)SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April ...

Macrophages, also known as scavenger cells, are part of our immune system. They destroy invading pathogens and are found in the organs and the bloodstream. Led by Prof. Dr. Peter Wieghofer, professor ...

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