Cities and states across the country are looking to expand coronavirus testing as part of efforts to emerge from lockdowns, but two major barriers remain: how to screen huge parts of the population ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 116, No. 13 (March 26, 2019), pp. 5914-5919 (6 pages) An essential feature of the adaptive immune system is the ...

A significant gap in the field of immunology is the process by which immune cells communicate to elicit an effective immune response. T cells are immune cells with multiple functions. There are also ...

Perhaps by measuring the contribution that membrane rafts make to the presentation of in vitro–loaded antigen by fixed APCs, Anderson et al. may be restricting their observations to an effect that ...

Any substance that induces the immune system to produce antibodies against it is called an antigen. Any foreign invaders, such as pathogens (bacteria and viruses), chemicals, toxins, and pollens, can ...

Vaccination against viruses commonly uses viral proteins to induce an immune response. The vaccine presents the viral proteins as the antigen to which the immune system responds. During natural viral ...

Therapeutic cancer vaccines have experienced a remarkable resurgence over the past decade, representing a paradigm shift in ...

In a recent article posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers demonstrated the sarbecovirus open reading frame 7a (ORF7a)-induced hindrance of the antigen presentation by the major ...

WASHINGTON — As of December 7, 2020 the Food & Drug Administration has approved Emergency Use Authorizations for almost 300 different tests, included diagnostic and serology tests. About two-thirds of ...

In its plan to resume football games next month, the Big Ten Conference announced new protocols for those on the field during practices and games. Among these measures are stringent testing for ...

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 23, 2024) - Defence Therapeutics Inc. (CSE: DTC) (OTCQB: DTCFF) (FSE: DTC) ("Defence" or the "Company"), a ...