The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the ...

An antigen is any substance that can trigger an immune response in the body. Antigens are typically proteins or polysaccharides that are recognized as foreign or potentially harmful by the immune ...

A new study by LMU and Helmholtz Munich shows how pathogens control changes in their cell surface to evade the immune system. The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that ...

From cholera to norovirus, Giardia to hookworms, the gut is vulnerable to an impressive array of pathogens. To keep us alive in the face of this onslaught, the intestinal immune system must be ...

The seasonal influenza vaccine contains strains of viruses from distinct virus subtypes, but most people who are vaccinated will mount a strong immune response to one strain, leaving them vulnerable ...

Creative Diagnostics also offers Nipah virus ELISA kits suitable for quantifying IgM antibody activity specific to the Nipah virus glycoprotein in the serum or plasma of vaccinated, immunized, and ...