Orthodoxy On How Macrophages Kill Bacteria Overturned With New Study

Monday, April 27, 2009 - 17:35 in Biology & Nature

For decades, microbiologists assumed that macrophages, immune cells that can engulf and poison bacteria and other pathogens, killed microbes by damaging their DNA. A new study disproves that.

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