The body’s ability to make an adaptable antibody suggests potential strategies for creating improved or even “universal” influenza vaccine

Advance could also work against other viruses

“Although we still have a long way to go, we’re making really good progress toward a human vaccine,” researcher said

Could lead to vaccines, diagnostic tests, and therapies

They say an animal-friendly antibody production technique using bacteriophage viruses instead of live animals is being overlooked, despite the enormous potential for reduction in animal use

Fall antibody validation workshop to convene academic and industry leaders; new online dialogue will crowdsource ideas and inform workshop discussions and outcomes

The university researchers, whose work began more than a decade ago, engineered a high-affinity, "sticky" antibody fragment that binds to the anthrax toxin

Problem: Nearly 40 years after its introduction, western blotting continues to be a powerful method for protein quantitation. Arguably, finding the right antibody to detect the protein of interest is the technique’s most critical and challenging step.

Measuring serum autoantibodies in a liquid biopsy of prostate cancer patients, the team was able to successfully confirm tissue specific biomarkers via immunohistochemistry.

School of Medicine research lays groundwork for diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccine

University at Buffalo researcher examines role of little-studied IgM in Sjögren’s syndrome

Lab at McMaster University is one of only a handful in Canada that makes its own flu