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Your protective Igs: The major focus of COVID-19 vaccines – Pursuit

As a scientists around the world continue to work on a COVID-19 vaccine – a University of Melbourne expert explains how and why they work at a cellular level.

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Professor Peter Doherty AC
This article is the latest in a series of weekly columns about all things infection and immunity written by Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty for the Doherty Institute, Setting It Straight.
Over the past two weeks, weve looked at the basics of antibody (Ig) recognition and reflected a little on ways that the Y-shaped IgG molecule does its job of dealing with SARS-CoV-2.
Most equate being vaccinated with a jab in the arm and the product going in by what is esse…

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