Discovery sheds light on real-time evolution of immune system’s ‘antibody factories’

The immune system’s B cells have the unique distinction of being the only cells in the human body that evolve, in real time—and an international team of scientists announced in Nature Immunology that they have uncovered new insights into how these cells rapidly evolve in response to an infection or vaccine to produce better protective antibodies.

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