New study overturns orthodoxy on how macrophages kill bacteria
Monday, April 27, 2009 - 10:14
in Biology & Nature
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 disproves that.
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