Fighting off pathogens is a tour de force that must happen with speed and precision. A team of researchers at CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and at ...

Tissue-resident macrophages are present in virtually every organ of the body to execute a variety of vital functions and ...

Macrophages play a central role in our immune response. They can trap and digest invading pathogens. However, specific bacteria such as Salmonella or Mycobacteria can survive the digestive system of ...

Macrophages, a type of white blood cell that can destroy invading pathogens, have an innate ability to infiltrate tumor cells, making them a potentially important tool in treatments that use ...