A team of Northwestern University scientists spanning disciplines have developed new technology that could lead to the creation of a rapid point-of-care test for HIV infection competitive with ...

"It is a very powerful tool that depends on three basic things: sensitivity, antigen-antibody affinity and specificity. This is where HIV comes in, because HIV is so pernicious that it mutates so ...

Seismic Therapeutic has dosed the first healthy participant cohort in the randomised Phase I trial of bifunctional antibody S ...

H3, a key cancer antigen and immune checkpointHighly expressed on the cell surfaces of both tumor and immune cells, B7-H3 is a promising anti-cancer ...

A vaccine's ability to generate long-lasting, high-affinity antibodies hinges on a delicate ... mutations that enhance their affinity for an antigen. As a consequence, high-affinity B cell ...

Delve into the landscape of biotech companies developing treatments for HIV and find out if we are getting closer to a cure.

Antibody responses by B cells become more specific over time in a process known as 'affinity maturation', but the role of antibody affinity for antigens in controlling B lymphocyte selection remains ...