How structural biology solved a 110-year immunological mystery
In December last year, a new research paper revealed how a protein called perforin – the ‘bullet’ of the immune system – kills rogue cells in our body. How these immune pore-forming proteins function...
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Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust Community Virus-cell interactions unravelled New Wellcome-Trust funded research has found that our cells are able to use the viruses that infect...
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