Review: Moving towards a Better Understanding of Chemotaxis

kavin submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (www.current-biology.com)

Anybody who has watched the now famous movie, made by the late David Rogers in the 1950s, of a neutrophil "chasing" its bacterial prey amongst red blood cells cannot fail to have been impressed by the ruthless efficiency of the predator despite its apparent "senseless" simplicity. It is argued that the hunt was underpinned by the ability of the neutrophil to chemotax up gradients of formylated peptides released by the bacteria

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