Immunization

... weeks to make an antibody for an antigen it has come into contact for the first time. If it comes into contact with the same antibody, secondary immunization occurs: the response takes about a week, and is about 100 times more powerful. The trick with antigenic drift is that the body keeps making ...

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Also, I used to work with GST fusion protein for a while(expression, purification and also mice immunization using the fusion protein - my protein has the antigenic characteristic), it seems that SDS-PAGE cannot tell the difference in the structure with and without GST. ...

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... on the House Government Reform Committee for leaping to conclusions about autism and vaccinations. "Why should we scare people about immunization," Waxman pointed out at one hearing, "until we know the facts?" It was only after reading the Simpsonwood transcripts, studying ...

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Nite is correct. Technically immunization is to be made immune and this can happen by natural methods. If you get chicken pox, you are then immune to them in the future. So you are immunized against chicken pox. The confusion is probably ...

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... their velvet will rub on cottonwood trees because the bark has a natural form of aspirin. Many animals, including us, have a natural method of immunization; eating boogers, yes boogers. These are all behaviors selected for because they increase fitness. How, then, can you call the practice ...

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