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Jul 1, 2008 · One hundred years ago the birth of immunology was made official by the Nobel Prize award to Elie Metchnikoff and Paul Ehrlich. Metchnikoff discovered phagocytosis by macrophages and...
Aug 25, 2016 · Main Text. The life and work of Elie Metchnikoff (1845–1916) is a study of contrasts, pessimism followed by optimism, from Imperial Russia to the Pasteur Institute, comparative embryology to experimental pathology.
Metchnikoff is rightly famous for his recognition of the biological significance of leukocyte recruitment and phagocytosis of microbes in host defence against infection, inflammation and immunity. As a comparative zoologist he utilised a broad range of model organisms for microscopic studies in vivo and in vitro.
