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When infection strikes, the body starts making proteins called antibodies specially designed to target that germ. Those antibodies float in survivors blood - specifically plasma, the yellowish liquid part of blood - for months, even years

Blood transfusions, a treatment used for 1918 Spanish Flu, may help...

Patients are infused with blood plasma teeming with immune molecules that helped coronavirus survivors though there's no...

3 April 2020 6:15 PM IST

Antibodies in the new technique hang on to a cells surface, blocking HIV from accessing a crucial cell receptor and spreading infection. (Photo: AP)

New technique makes cells resistant to HIV

It offers a significant advantage over therapies where antibodies float freely in the bloodstream at a relatively low...

11 April 2017 9:38 PM IST