The outbreak of Ebola in 2014 in West Africa killed more than 11000 people. At the time, scientists were working on several experimental vaccines and treatments, but none of them were approvedRead More…
Melanin protects us from the sun’s destructive rays by absorbing light energy and converting it into heat. A recent study has shown that this can make it a very effective tool forRead More…
Scientists, from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), have successfully reconstructed biomolecules in the form of images. The goal of the researchers is to create a mirror artificial protein synthesis system. InRead More…
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease common in the elderly. The main pathological changes were diffuse atrophy of cerebral cortex, neurofibrillary tangles and the formation of a large number of senileRead More…
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche recently announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the biologics licensing application (BLA) of polatuzumab vedotin, antibody drug conjugate (ADC), and granted priority review. TheRead More…
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) evades the body’s immune defenses through multiple mutations, and antibodies produced by the host immune system against HIV follow complex and untraceable evolutionary pathways. This complexity makesRead More…
Immuno-Oncology Therapy (I-O) refers to a therapy that kills tumor cells by activating the body’s immune system. According to their different mechanisms of action, immunotherapeutic drugs can be divided into six categories.Read More…
In a recent study published in an international magazine of Immunity, scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new antibody that could hold the key to unlocking cancers’ defense againstRead More…
In a new study, researchers from the University of Tokyo in Japan revealed the structure of a immune protein called immunoglobulin M (IgM) by using computer image analysis and electron microscopy imaging.Read More…
On October 3rd, the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the field of biochemistry, in which Frances H. Arnold of US won half in recognition of her directed evolution ofRead More…