A neutralizing antibody (NAb) is an antibody that is responsible for defending cells from pathogens, which are organisms that cause disease. They are produced naturally by the body as part of its ...

Viral subunit vaccines often contain immunodominant non-neutralizing epitopes that divert host immune responses. These epitopes should be eliminated in vaccine design, but there is no reliable method ...

From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of researchers’ nagging questions involved trying to understand what constitutes immunity to future infections. People who had been infected by the virus ...

The BNT162b2 vaccine was shown to have 95% efficacy against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). 1 To date, the two-dose vaccine protocol has not been approved in Israel for persons previously ...

We characterized the SARS-CoV-2 infections in a cohort of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) who were hospitalized in the Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town (Table S1 in the ...

This news article was a review of a preliminary scientific report that had not undergone peer-review at the time of publication. Since its initial publication, the scientific report has now been peer ...

Flu activity has surged in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, driven primarily by a newly emerged H3N2 strain known as ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Most patients with HIV who received two broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) after pausing antiretroviral ...

Antibodies have become an integral part of research and medicine. Therapeutic applications of antibodies began to emerge following the publication of Köhler and Milstein’s groundbreaking 1975 paper in ...

Circulating Tumor DNA as a Biomarker in Patients With Stage III and IV Wilms Tumor: Analysis From a Children's Oncology Group Trial, AREN0533 Vaccine-induced nAbs are detectable at much lower rates ...