Researchers at the University of Alberta have uncovered new information about a cellular mechanism in the immune system that provides a critical step toward better understanding how antibodies evolve and improve in the human body. The antibodies our immune system produces need fine-tuning to reach maximum effectiveness. When a vaccine or pathogen is first introduced into our...
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How the body uses fat to fight infection
by University of East Anglia Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research from the University of East Anglia and Quadram Institute reveals how our immune cells use the body’s fat stores to fight infection. The research, published today in the journal Nature Communications, could help develop new approaches to treating people with bacterial infections. The research team...
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Targeting cellular response to SARS-CoV-2 holds promise as new way to fight infection
by University of Cambridge Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a dying cell (blue) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 (yellow), the virus that causes COVID-19. Credit: NIAID Integrated Research Facility, Fort Detrick, Maryland. When a person is infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, it invades their cells and uses them to replicate—which puts the cells under...