Many vaccines work by introducing a protein to the body that resembles part of a virus. Ideally, the immune system will produce long-lasting antibodies recognizing that specific virus, thereby ...

A technique invented by the lab, known as Electron Microscopy-Based Polyclonal Epitope Mapping (EMPEM), lets the researchers see exactly where on the HIV virus antibodies bind. When they carried ...

A unique reaction in which antibodies bind to other antibodies may help scientists at Scripps Research better understand how ...

A molecular cage has been designed to surround cancer proteins and make them easier to visualize with cryo-electron microscopy, enabling insights into their structure previously not possible. Nearly ...

Repetitive HIV vaccinations can lead the body to produce antibodies targeting the immune complexes already bound to the virus ...

This is a mugshot of a killer. The little yellow dots are HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) particles, also called virions. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), an ...

The 3D electron microscopy imaging is available using Serial Block Face (SB-EM) and Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (FIB-SEM) or Electron Tomography (ET) Electron tomography is TEM based ...

like these HIV particles budding on the surface of a T cell. Now a new type of electron microscope, a tunnelling electron microscope, has even made it possible to see the arrangement of atoms.

Many vaccines work by introducing a protein to the body that resembles part of a virus. Ideally, the immune system will ...

For some HIV vaccines, repetitive immunizations lead to a chain reaction of antibody production against immune complexes ...