Researchers show that genetic traits influence the cellular composition of atherosclerotic plaques, which over time will affect the risk of such lesions to cause a stroke or heart attack. The new ...

A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a certain type of cells - foam cells - in patients with the aggressive brain tumour glioblastoma. It has been shown how these cells ...

A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a certain type of cells – foam cells – in patients with the aggressive brain tumour glioblastoma. It has been shown how these cells ...

Foam cells visualized using confocal microscopy in tissue from a patient with glioblastoma. Shown are the nucleus (in blue), a marker for macrophages that are recruited from the bone marrow (in ...

The mechanisms that lead to its formation are incompletely understood, but its role in coronary atherosclerosis has major clinical implications. Indeed, plaques with PR have elevated risk of provoking ...

Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Gentofte, Denmark. (D.E.-L., S.V.-K., C.J.K., B.N.W., B.G.N.) The Copenhagen General ...