Fighting infections with blood clots

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 22:21 in Biology & Nature

Clot formation within small blood vessels helps in the fight against pathogenic microbes, researchers in Germany have shown. At the molecular level, clot formation turns out to be intimately connected with the innate immune system, a finding that may open up new therapeutic possibilities.

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