Phagocytosis is a form of endocytosis where a cell modifies its plasma membrane to engulf and internalize external matter, creating an internal compartment known as the phagosome. The word ...

Feb. 20 (UPI) --Scientists have designed a new model to identify which organisms are capable of consuming other cells through a process called phagocytosis. The research, detailed this week in the ...

This amoeba, a single-celled organism, acquires energy by engulfing nutrients in the form of a yeast cell (red). Through a process called phagocytosis, the amoeba encloses the yeast cell with its ...

IBEC’s Principal Investigator César Rodriguez-Emmenegger has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to develop Phagocytic Synthetic Cells (PSCs) to fight antibiotic-resistant pathogens. César ...

Opsonization is the mechanism by which targeting of particles for destruction through phagocytosis becomes enhanced. Opsonins are molecules that mark foreign particles for phagocytosis. Phagocytosis ...

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers have created a new method for studying protein degradation within immune cells that uses engineered microparticles to track and analyze degradation ...