Antibody Quotes & Sayings

The production of antibody is not the only, nor I believe the most important, manifestation of immunity, but for reasons both historical and of experimental convenience, antibody is likely to remain the touchstone of immunological theory. — Frank Macfarlane Burnet

When you vaccinate someone, or when you get infected, the microbe is presenting itself to the immune system in a way that the immune system recognizes the important elements of the microbe and makes an immune response, both an antibody response and a cellular response, to ultimately contain the microbe. — Anthony Fauci

I'm not keen on the English way of eating outside, on the street. I want food that is clean, not impregnated with toxic fumes. — Marie Helvin

The study of the amino acid sequence around the disulphide bonds of the immunoglobulins was my own short-cut to the understanding of antibody diversity. — Cesar Milstein

Nutriscan measures IgA and IgM antibodies in a dog's saliva. By detecting high IgA and IgM antibody levels, NutriScan identifies changes in the dog's gene expression when faced with the reactive food, enabling the test to clearly identify the specific ingredient(s) causing the problem. NutriScan can also differentiate between a food intolerance/sensitivity and a food allergy because food allergies are typically mediated by different antibodies (IgE and IgG) than food intolerances/sensitivities (Dodds, — W. Jean Dodds

Back in 1962, when I had by accident become the supervisor of Roberto Celis in Argentina, it occurred to me that antibody diversity might arise from the joining by disulphide bridges of a variety of small polypeptides in combinatorial patterns. — Cesar Milstein

I told her I don't think grief is a price we pay for love, but rather that it is a part of love. When death comes, I think the grief is to be experienced the way the joy was experienced before - and if we experience it intimately, grief and joy are not separate, and both are love. — Barry Graham

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43. — Ian Fleming

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. — Peter Singer

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence. — Mark Nepo

More about the selection theory: Jerne meant that the Socratic idea of learning was a fitting analogy for 'the logical basis of the selective theories of antibody formation': Can the truth (the capability to synthesize an antibody) be learned? If so, it must be assumed not to pre-exist; to be learned, it must be acquired. We are thus confronted with the difficulty to which Socrates calls attention in Meno [ ... ] namely, that it makes as little sense to search for what one does not know as to search for what one knows; what one knows, one cannot search for, since one knows it already, and what one does not know, one cannot search for, since one does not even know what to search for. Socrates resolves this difficulty by postulating that learning is nothing but recollection. The truth (the capability to synthesize an antibody) cannot be brought in, but was already inherent. — Niels Kaj Jerne

Anti-democracy ... is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to stay on top of the issues of democracy and freedom. — Harry Belafonte

I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield. — Ray Bradbury

The total number of different specific antibodies that can be made by an individual is known as the antibody repertoire and it might be as high as 10^16. In practice, the number of B cells limits the actual repertoire to closer to 10^9. — Peter Parham

Immunologists agreed that an individual vertebrate synthesizes many millions of structurally different forms of antibody molecules even before it encounters an antigen. — Susumu Tonegawa

We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules. — Cesar Milstein

Love is not the mere opening of two souls' doors. Nor is it a palliative to the troubled heart; it is a stimulant. Under its influence, that heart grows until each tiny imperfection is not tiny. — Richard Harvell

What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences. — Cesar Milstein

We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody. — Luc Montagnier

An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate tissue culture fluid, and when we add an antigen, the lymphocytes will produce specific antibody molecules, in the absense of any nerve cells. I find it astonishing that the immune system embodies a degree of complexity which suggests some more or less superficial though striking analogies with human language, and that this cognitive system has evolved and functions without assistance of the brain. — Niels Kaj Jerne

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head. — C.S. Lewis