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Understanding the production of memory B cells and immune responses – News-Medical.net

The current COVID-19 climate has made vaccines, antibodies, and immune responses topics of everyday conversation.

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Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 12 2020
The current COVID-19 climate has made vaccines, antibodies, and immune responses topics of everyday conversation. Now, it isn’t just immunologists who want to know how our bodies respond to re-infections months, years, or sometimes decades after an initial immune response. A new study by Tomohiro Kurosaki at Osaka University shows that this ability requires Bach2, a protein that regulates the expression of genes needed to instruct activated B cells …

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