McMaster University is looking at potential applications for a tool in the human immune system that reacts like a “spider web” when engaging microorganisms that can cause disease like SARS-CoV-2 – the virus responsible for COVID-19.Immunologists at the university say they’ve discovered a “previously unknown mechanism” tied to a type of white blood cell, neutrophils, which explode when binding to pathogens releasing DNA outside of a cell creating a sticky tangle that acts as a trap.
McMaster researchers pursue new cancer treatment that would avoid damaging healthy cells The study’s lead author Matthew Miller, an associate professor at McMaster’s Michael G.