A protein called c-FLIP-R is critical to immune cell
survival: If this molecule is missing, the cells kill themselves – and are thus
no longer able to perform their job fighting off invaders. Now, scientists at
the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) Braunschweig and at the Otto
von Guericke University (OvGU) Magdeburg have published their findings in the
renowned European Journal of Immunology.