Feb. 20 (UPI) --Scientists have designed a new model to identify which organisms are capable of consuming other cells through a process called phagocytosis. The research, detailed this week in the ...

Figure 2: EhC2PK binds phosphatidylserine in the presence of Ca 2+. Figure 6: EhC2PK is essential for initiation of phagocytosis. To distinguish between recruitment and subsequent signal transduction ...

IBEC’s Principal Investigator César Rodriguez-Emmenegger has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to develop Phagocytic Synthetic Cells (PSCs) to fight antibiotic-resistant pathogens. César ...

Phagocytic immune cells such as macrophages play an important role in the phagocytosis of dying or diseased cells. Efferocytosis is a process involving the removal of apoptotic or dead cells by ...

A previously unidentified physically activated pathway for cellular uptake in the body’s immune defence system could predate commonly recognized receptor-mediated processes. The pathway relies on ...

Opsonization is the mechanism by which targeting of particles for destruction through phagocytosis becomes enhanced. Opsonins are molecules that mark foreign particles for phagocytosis. Phagocytosis ...