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Macrophages salvage nutrients from the bacteria they phagocytose to regulate inflammatory responses, revealing immunometabolic targets to treat infections.

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What Drives Myeloid Cell Responses to Disease

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Pseudomonas Bacteria Escape Immunity by Disrupting Energy Production in Macrophages

Salmonella living within macrophages can survive antibiotic treatment and potentially give rise to resistance by two different mechanisms that slow or arrest their growth.

Slow Bacterial Growth Enables Antibiotic Resistance

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Viral Research Gets Batty to Study Spillovers

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Aimless Monocytes Underlie a Rare Lung Disease

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Fish Oil in Diet Can Cause Hair Loss in Mice, Study Finds

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How Intracellular Bacteria Hijack Your Cells

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Infographic: Intracellular Bacteria’s Tricks for Host Manipulation 

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Immune Cells Imitating Neurons Cause Pain in Mice with Tumors

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Gonorrhea-Blocking Mutation Also Protects Against Alzheimer’s: Study

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Cancer Cells Could Travel Through the Interstitium: Study

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Microscopic Robots Deliver Drugs to the Brain

CAR Macrophages Tackle Challenges in Solid Cancer Treatment

Understanding Transplant Rejection with Single-Cell Proteomics

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Macrophages of the Human Eye Come into Focus

A Tweak to Immune Cells Reverses Aging in Mice

Investigating the Immune Response Using Advanced Flow Cytometry

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Is a Bradykinin Storm Brewing in COVID-19?

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Infographic: SARS-CoV-2 Interferes with Bradykinin Regulation

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Biomedical Informatician Atul Butte Dies at 55

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A Gut Pathogen’s Unexpected Weapon Against Amyloid Diseases

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Electronic Records in Cell Culture Management

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Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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