Antibodies take 'evolutionary leaps' to fight microbes

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - 06:42 in Biology & Nature

A new report in the January 2009 issue of The FASEB Journal explains for the first time how humans keep up with microbes by rearranging the genes that make antibodies to foreign invaders. read more

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