Medically reviewed by Amelia MacIntyre, DO One of the most important characteristics of blood is its type. Knowing your blood ...

Doctors call this the ABO Blood Group System ... That’s because type O-negative blood cells don’t have antibodies to A, B, or Rh antigens. Type O-negative blood is usually given in a life ...

These newly recognized cancer-specific proteins, or antigens, could speed the development of potent immunotherapies that recognize and attack hard-to-treat tumors. The study, which was supported ...

Another was trained on the strength of bonds between various antibody structures and three different antigens. Their discovery was made through a general strategy known as “transfer learning.” ...

Subsets of the ANA blood tests are sometimes used to determine the specific autoimmune disease. For this purpose, a doctor may order anti-dsDNA, anti-Sm, Sjögren's antigens (SSA, SSB), Scl-70 ...

In normal individuals, the H antigen serves as the base ... rich cross-blood transplant experience in ABO, include determining a safe anti-H antibody titre cut-off, sufficient enough to stop ...

The establishment of a hyperacute rejection (HAR) model of ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation (ABOi-KTx) in nonhuman primates is of great significance for the study of the relevant clinical ...

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and NIH developed a broadly neutralizing antibody that protects monkeys from severe H5N1 avian flu by targeting a stable region of the virus, reducing the ...

Objective Although low infliximab trough concentrations and antibodies to infliximab (ATI) are associated with poor outcomes in patients with Crohn's disease (CD), the clinical relevance of ATI in ...

State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China Department of Andrology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical ...

The initiation of T-cell–mediated antitumor immune responses requires the uptake and processing of tumor antigens by dendritic cells and their presentation on MHC-I molecules. Here we show in a ...