An antigen is a foreign substance that elicits a specific immune response or that itself is the target of such an immune response.
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Antigens are generally foreign substances. They are recognized by antibodies and certain receptors on immune cells. Proteins, carbohydrates and lipids can function as an antigen.
The idea of genetically modifying a patient’s own immune cells and deploying them against infections and tumors has been around since the 1980s. But to this day modified T cells are still not as
Looking for an effective treatment of serious influenza infections, researchers of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut have used bioinformatics to screen licensed medicines for their potential efficacy against
Temporary loss of T cell immunity towards various virus infections (e.g. Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) or Adenovirus (AdV)) is a main cause of infection-related mortality in severely immunocompromised patients, like individuals upon allogeneic hematopoetic stem cell transplantation ...
