"The vaccine could actually promote antigenic shift, which means you're turning ... test therapeutic drugs on those flocks so that, for example, you put a therapy in half the population, and ...

These strains occur because of the phenomenon known as antigenic shift, in which humans are infected ... infected with more than one flu virus. For example, when a cell is infected with influenza ...

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 recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response. For ...

"This strategy is known as antigenic variation," explains physicist Maria Colomé-Tatché, who is Professor of Functional Genomics and Cell Biology at LMU's Biomedical Center and leader of the ...

Catani and colleagues provide data on antigenic properties of neuraminidase proteins of pandemic H1N1 and show that antigenic diversity of the neuraminidase from 2009 to 2020 largely falls into two ...

Many systems in nature—and in society—can suddenly change their properties: Water freezes at normal pressure at 32°F, a power ...