Measles is an extremely contagious vaccine-preventable disease that can lead to death or disability. It also wipes out immune ...

Researchers from the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, in collaboration with other scientists, have discovered a way ...

Fewer vaccine doses and no viral infection means the body's immune system has had little opportunity ... More information: Bornali Bhattacharjee et al, Immunological and Antigenic Signatures ...

Its greatest strength is antigenic variation ... This ability to evade detection weakens the body’s ability to develop long-lasting immunity, making reinfection common. Adding to the challenge ...

No other body has the same power to convene international ... enabling early detection of antigenic drift in seasonal influenza viruses and the identification of novel influenza A strains with ...

Biopreparat sought to create three classes of bioweapon: antibiotic-resistant bacteria, microbes with altered antigenic structures that could avoid detection and treatment, and bacteria with ...

Food-related allergies and their effects are insidiously common in the United States: over 7% of children and over 10% of adults are affected. Although a quarter of people with food allergies have an ...

A large body of literature suggests that cytotoxic ... such as limited or absent antigenic variability and antibody-mediated protection. Because this approach to vaccine discovery starts with ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the ...

She joins Host Flora Lichtman to discuss what she’s learned over the years, and her new book The Grieving Body. Mary-Frances O’Connor is a neuroscientist and author of The Grieving Body and The ...

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