Of the nine treatments and preventives for COVID-19 authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration, three are drugs made from so-called monoclonal antibodies. Such drugs provide ...
Fc receptors function as the essential bridge between the innate and adaptive immune systems. When antibodies bind to their ...
A new study shows how the single-molecule organization of receptors in a cellular context determines the function of antibodies, opening up new pathways for the development of cancer immunotherapies.
Teams at the Institut Pasteur, CNRS, Vaccine Research Institute (VRI) and Université de Paris have discovered a new function of anti-HIV-1 [1] antibodies by applying cutting-edge microscopy techniques ...
Effective antibody responses against HIV are rare both during natural infection and after vaccination. As a result, many research groups have focused their efforts on identifying and characterizing ...
Understanding how the human immune system fights Plasmodium vivax paves the way for the first effective vaccine against it.