{"id":85661,"date":"2020-10-24T19:15:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18093"},"modified":"2021-06-22T16:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T10:37:40","slug":"serum-institute-of-india-iavi-and-merck-join-forces-to-develop-covid-19-antibodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/serum-institute-of-india-iavi-and-merck-join-forces-to-develop-covid-19-antibodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Serum Institute of India, IAVI and Merck join forces to develop COVID-19 antibodies"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0Serum Institute of India(SII) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) have announced an agreement with pharmaceutical major Merck to develop SARS-CoV-2 neutralising monoclonal antibodies(mAbs).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>What are Monoclonal Antibodies?\u00a0<\/strong>They are man-made proteins that act like human antibodies in the immune system.They are made by cloning a unique white blood cell.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Monoclonal antibodies can have monovalent affinity, binding only to the same epitope (the part of an antigen that is recognized by the antibody).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>They are designed to perform many roles like they can be used to carry drugs, toxins or radioactive substances directly to the cancer cells.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>Antibody:\u00a0<\/strong>It is a protein produced by the body\u2019s immune system when it detects harmful substances called antigens.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Antigen<\/strong>: It is a toxin or other foreign substance which induces an immune response in the body especially the production of antibodies.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Epitope<\/strong>: It is a portion of a foreign protein or antigen that is capable of stimulating an immune response.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:\u00a0Serum Institute of India(SII) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) have announced an agreement with pharmaceutical major Merck to develop SARS-CoV-2 neutralising monoclonal antibodies(mAbs). Facts: What are Monoclonal Antibodies?\u00a0They are man-made proteins that act like human antibodies in the immune system.They are made by cloning a unique white blood cell. Features: Monoclonal antibodies can&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/serum-institute-of-india-iavi-and-merck-join-forces-to-develop-covid-19-antibodies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Serum Institute of India, IAVI and Merck join forces to develop COVID-19 antibodies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2911],"class_list":["post-85661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-monoclonal-antibodies","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700790587,"cached_date":1704684293},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}