White Blood Cells Can Sprout 'Legs' And Move Like Millipedes
Monday, May 4, 2009 - 09:35
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have shown that rather than inching along blood vessel walls to reach injured tissue, white blood cells sprout hundreds of "legs" that grip the vessel walls and propel them, millipede-like, to the proper site.
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