Now, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg and the University of Münster have discovered a hidden talent of mast cells: they can capture and use another ...

Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), and Yale University (U.S.) have published a comprehensive review article in the ...

Predicting tumor progression is one of the major challenges in oncology. Scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have discovered that neutrophils, a ...

A team from UNIGE reveals how the 'hijacking' of neutrophils, a type of immune cell, promotes cancer growth and could provide insights into disease progression.

A newly uncovered immune chain reaction in the gut may explain why people with inflammatory bowel disease face a much higher ...

When infection or injury occurs, neutrophils—our most abundant immune cells—are the first to arrive. Long considered short-lived foot soldiers of the immune system, they are essential for host defense ...

This scanning electron microscopy image captures the moment where degranulating mast cells (pseudo-colored in sepia) attract and start to incorporate living neutrophils (pseudo-colored in cyan), ...