Sentences with phrase «of a human antibody called»

A single dose of a human antibody called ZIKV - 117 can protect mice from death after Zika infection — and shield mouse fetuses from the virus's damaging effects, researchers report November 7 in Nature.

A single dose of a human antibody called ZIKV - 117 can shield mouse fetuses from the virus's damaging effects, researchers report online November 7 in Nature.

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In humans, scientists know a lot about the cells involved in immediate antibody production, called plasmablasts, but less about the separate group of cells responsible for the «storage / research for the future» functions, called memory B cells.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called the new work a «significant advance,» noting in a statement that it «opens the way to producing [monoclonal antibodies] that potentially could be used diagnostically or therapeutically» for the flu as well as other infectious diseases such as hepatitis C and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which can lead to full - blown AIDS.

So - called cancer immunotherapy — which is the treatment of tumors by the use of antibodies — has been established and used very successfully in human medicine for about 20 years.

Around the same time that transgenic mice began to be used to produce human antibodies, scientists also started employing a genomic technology called phage display to build massive libraries of human antibody genes that could be screened quickly.»

They fused mouse B cells — antibody - producing cells of the immune system — with human myeloma (also known as B cell cancer) cell lines in a new technique called hybridoma technology.

Colin Barnstable, DPhil (M Club) Chair, Neural and Behavioral Sciences «Production of monocolonal antibodies to group A erythrocytes, HLA and other human call surface antigens — new tools for genetic analysis» Cell, 1978 2,020 citations, Web of Science, April 1, 2017