Neutrophil granulocytes, a cell type of the innate immune system, migrate from the bloodstream to an injured tissue in order to harm or phagocytise invading microorganisms. They are, however also able to migrate back to the bloodstream. After scientists discovered this migration, a researcher team wanted to found out whether this mechanism is also detectable in human tissue.

CNN recently reported on the first entire artificial lung grown by researchers at University of Texas under the direction of Joan Nichols.

On 24. of February from 10 to 4 p.m., the Research and Technology Contact Center "uni transfer" at the Leibniz University of Hannover together with the Institute for Economic and Cultural Geography organize a meeting under the topic" University spin-off companies".

Smallest structures on a scale of 100 nanometres can be made clearly visible under a simple laboratory microscope at a low cost using tiny glass beads distributed across a cell sample.