Trapped immune cells laden with microplastics starve the brain of oxygen—mouse study links vascular blockages to memory loss and motor deficits, with lingering risks even after symptoms fade.
Protists, eukaryotic unicellular organisms, play a crucial role in aquatic microbial food webs. Phagotrophic protists or protozoa use phagocytosis as a ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally transformed global healthcare systems and vaccine technologies. The accelerated approval and rapid distribution of mRNA vaccines introduced a new paradigm in ...
The knockout removed NPC1 from other myeloid cell types too, creating lipid storage problems in cells such as peripheral blood macrophages, which could contribute to the phenotype, he noted. Beyond ...