When a white blood cell finds a germ, it latches onto it. Then it changes its shape to surround the germ. You can imagine the ...

(Courtesy: Sebastian Gonzalez La Corte et al./Princeton University/Caltech) Bacterial cells in solutions of polymers such as mucus grow into long cable-like structures that buckle and twist on each ...

A person will often cough up phlegm when viruses, bacteria, or unwanted — possibly cancerous — cells are present in the lungs. Clear or light-colored mucus often does not indicate a serious ...

Tests using mucus-producing cells to model conditions in the nose showed that eight times as much insulin was taken up by the cells when incubated with the insulin-loaded gel formulation, compared ...

Adapting for co-existence The research team has two main hypotheses about how anemonefish maintain low sialic acid levels: either their mucus-producing cells express high levels of enzymes that ...