Macrophages salvage nutrients from the bacteria they phagocytose to regulate inflammatory responses, revealing ...

Through a process called phagocytosis, the amoeba encloses the yeast cell with its membrane and draws it inside. Specialized plasma membrane proteins in the amoeba (in green) are involved in this ...

The white blood cell then engulfs the pathogen in a process called phagocytosis, in which it "eats" the foreign invader to neutralize it. This dramatic process might sound like something out of a ...

"There is a lot we still don't know about how cells ingest and eliminate tissue debris or pathogens—the process of phagocytosis," said Jingjiao Guan, a professor in the Department of Chemical ...