In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* server, a team of researchers investigated how antigen concentration and viral load in different specimen types affected the performance of severe acute ...

An antigen is any substance that can trigger an immune response in the body. Antigens are typically proteins or polysaccharides that are recognized as foreign or potentially harmful by the immune ...

Do you know your blood type? Scientists say everyone should in case of a life-threatening event that results in a need for a blood transfusion. But now, they've discovered a new group of blood types ...

With a discovery that could rewrite the immunology textbooks, an international group of scientists, including the teams of Bart Lambrecht, Martin Guilliams, Hamida Hammad, and Charlotte Scott (all ...

A hypersensitivity reaction happens when the immune system mistakenly identifies harmless substances as harmful. There are several types of hypersensitivity reactions, depending on the class of ...

An evaluation of phase I clinical trial designs of chemotherapeutic agents tested on solid tumors and approved in last 10 years. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I.

Blood types are a classification of blood based on the antigens present in red blood cells. In the United States, O-positive is the most common blood type, and AB-negative is the rarest. A blood ...