In Vivo Video: Immune Cells Munch on Bad Bacteria

Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 14:07 in Biology & Nature

For the first time, medical researchers make movies inside a living animal of attack by immune cells on bacteria. Hemocytes (green) rapidly engulf E.coli (red) in this time-lapse microscope movie.

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