They shall not pass! Fighting infections with blood clots
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 13:07
in Biology & Nature
A research team at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich has shown that clot formation within small blood vessels helps in the fight against pathogenic microbes. 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.