Scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden report that immune cells in the liver react to high cholesterol levels and engulf excess cholesterol that can otherwise cause damage to arteries.

It's a Cell-Eat-Cell World For more than 100 years, pathologists have observed cancer cells engulfing other live cells, but scientists are only now beginning to understand how it happens and what it ...

Cancer cells that accumulate extra copies of their entire chromosome set can start behaving like immune cells, swallowing their neighbors and migrating through tissue to seed tumors in distant organs.