Antibodies

  • Fighting Bacteria With a New Genre of Antibodies
    In an advance toward coping with bacteria that shrug off existing antibiotics and sterilization methods, scientists are reporting development of a new family of selective antimicrobial agents that do not rely on traditional antibiotics. Their report on these synthetic ...More
    5 weeks ago
    Posted in News
  • Scientists Find Ethnicity is Linked to Antibodies
    Cracking the DNA code for a complex region of the human genome has helped 14 North American scientists, including five at Simon Fraser University, chart new territory in immunity research. They have discovered that a good number of our antibody genes, how well they operate ...More
    April 19, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Scientists Study How Immune Cells are Able to Advance Their Own Evolution
    Immune system B cells play a crucial role in the defence of pathogens; when they detect such an intruder, they produce antibodies that help to combat the enemy. They concurrently and continuously improve these molecules to more precisely recognize the pathogens. A team of ...More
    March 11, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Genetically Modified Tobacco Plants Produce Antibodies to Treat Rabies
    Smoking tobacco might be bad for your health, but a genetically altered version of the plant might provide a relatively inexpensive cure for the deadly rabies virus. In a new research report appearing in the FASEB Journal, scientists produced a monoclonal antibody in ...More
    February 1, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Modified Antibodies Trigger Immune Response, Point to Novel Vaccine Design Strategies
    In an approach with the potential to aid therapeutic vaccine development, Whitehead Institute scientists have shown that enzymatically modified antibodies can be used to generate highly targeted, potent responses from cells of the immune system. The approach, referred to as ...More
    January 7, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Antibodies to Immune Cells Protect Eyes in Pseudomonas Infection
    Contact lenses, particularly the extended wear variety, render wearers vulnerable to eye infections from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. These infections can cause severe damage, including blindness. Treating the eye with antibodies to the inflammatory immune compound ...More
    October 22, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Flu Antibody May Boost Effort Toward Universal Vaccine, New Therapies
    Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute and Sea Lane Biotechnologies have solved the co-crystal structure of a human antibody that can neutralize influenza viruses in a unique way. The antibody recognizes the crucial structure that flu viruses use to attach to host ...More
    September 17, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Scientists Devise Powerful New Method for Finding Therapeutic Antibodies
    Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have found a new technique that should greatly speed the discovery of medically and scientifically useful antibodies, immune system proteins that detect and destroy invaders such as bacteria and viruses. New methods to discover ...More
    September 12, 2012
    Posted in News
  • NIH Scientists Map First Steps in Flu Antibody Development
    National Institutes of Health scientists have identified how a kind of immature immune cell responds to a part of influenza virus and have traced the path those cells take to generate antibodies that can neutralize a wide range of influenza virus strains. Study researchers ...More
    August 29, 2012
    Posted in News
  • H1N1 Gains Virulence When Grown With Human Antibody
    In 2009, a novel H1N1 influenza A virus (2009 pH1N1) emerged and caused a pandemic. A human monoclonal antibody (hMAb; EM4C04), highly specific for the 2009 pH1N1 virus hemagglutinin (HA), was isolated from a severely ill 2009 pH1N1 virus-infected patient. O’Donnell, et al. ...More
    August 28, 2012
    Posted in News
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