Macrophages are part of the immune system's frontline; they attack and "eat" invaders to protect surrounding cells. They, ...

Researchers from The University of Osaka found that macrophages use microautophagy, mediated by Rab32-positive ...

The study is “unique in demonstrating that people’s immune system can be primed just by the visual recognition that someone looks sick,” Irwin adds to Simon Makin at Science News.

Diagram showing the mechanism discovered in the study. Inflammation of the intestines in ulcerative colitis results from an ...