Hyderabad, Dec. 8 -- The CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad hosted the India-EMBO Lecture Course on "Cell-Autonomous Defense and Innate Immunity" from December 3 to 5, bringing together leading international scientists to share breakthrough insights on how cells defend themselves against infection and damage.
The three-day meeting highlighted a major shift in immunology that a cell's internal defence systems, clean-up processes and programmed self-destruction mechanisms operate as an interconnected network rather than as separate pathways.
Experts discussed how cells function as first responders to invading microbes, capable of sensing threats, removing damaged components and initiating emergency shutdown w...