Some Immune Systems Defeat Cancer. Could That Become a Drug?

Researchers found an antibody that seems to play a role in people with better lung cancer prognoses, but turning it into a ...

Study finds albumin, the most abundant blood protein, acts as a shield against deadly fungal infections

Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB-FORTH) and the University of Crete, together with ...

Simulations predict antibody drug viscosity, paving way for easier self-injection

Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) aid the body against autoimmune diseases and cancer, among other things. Patients have to pick ...
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Antibodies Use Decoys To Block Bacterial Cell Attachment

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines of attack is to cling tenaciously to the surfaces of targeted human cells.
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GCSE results will be available online this summer

GCSE students across England will be able to view their exams results on their phones for the first time in August. An "education record" app, trialled with 95,000 pupils in Manchester and the West ...
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Efgartigimod combined with rituximab helps improve the symptoms and reduce the use of corticosteroids in patients with MuSK antibody-positive MG: a single case report

1 Department of Neurology, Shantou Central Hospital, Shantou, China 2 Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China Introduction: Myasthenia gravis ...
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Genetic Variants May Thwart Monoclonal Antibody Binding

Researchers in Switzerland have conducted the first systematic study that demonstrated that even small variations in a person’s genome can disrupt the therapeutic effects of monoclonal antibodies. “We ...