Immunologic Factor: neutralizing antibody

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New hope for fighting malaria: Decoding human antibodies

Researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) recently decoded how human antibodies protect us from the malaria parasite, which kills more than 600,000 people worldwide annually. The CMCF facility at the Canadian ...

Study helps explain SARS-CoV-2 variants' rapid spread

The omicron variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which have rapidly spread around the world over the past year, latch onto our cells more tightly, invade them more efficiently, and elude many of the antibodies induced by previous ...

Low binding affinity shown to improve vaccine efficacy

Conventional vaccines usually contain antigens—components of the respective pathogens—that bind to receptors on the surface of their target cells in order to trigger the disease. Scientists at the Berlin Institute of Health ...

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