When some viruses infect our bodies, “our immune system can create a type of ‘permanent immunity’, meaning that once you’ve been exposed to that virus, you’ve got protection from it and are typically ...

Monoclonal antibodies have been effective in treating in both preventing and treating SARS-CoV-2 infections. However, just as SARS-CoV-2 evolves to evade immune responses by vaccines and natural ...

Researchers from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with multiple collaborators, have developed a compact diagnostic platform that can evaluate ...

When we encounter an antigen for the first time, our immune system stores a memory that helps us create a faster and more efficient immune response against the antigen during subsequent encounters ...

video: This spinning blue shape is the outer shell (glycoprotein) that shields lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) from immune system attack. And yet new research shows that an antibody (grey) ...

The current wave of COVID-19 highlights a particularly high risk of reinfection by the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. Why is this? A team from the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases of the University ...