Finding suggests novel ways to boost vaccination or natural defe...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 07/06/2008 - 23:00

(Research Australia) Our bodies rely on the production of potent, or 'high affinity,' antibodies to fight infection.

The process is very complex, yet Sydney scientists have discovered that it hinges on a single molecule, a growth factor, without which it cannot function.

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