India, Aug. 25 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
A new property of the largest antibody so far identified in our body, changes our existing understanding of antibodies from chemical keys that fit into microbial locks to mechanical engineers, altering the physical properties of molecules to protect us
This could inspire new therapies by designing antibodies that mechanically stiffen dangerous proteins and disarming them.
Our immune system is armed with many types of antibodies, each with unique roles. Among them, IgM is the largest and one of the first antibodies our body produces when fighting infections.
A recent study from researchers at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS), an autonom...