Antibodies are key components of the immune system, as they recognize and bind to proteins on the surfaces of viruses and bacteria. It was generally thought that any antibody-virus combinations that resulted were cleared by specialized immune cells, but a paper released yesterday by PNAS indicates that when any cell is targeted by a virus that has an antibody latched on to it, the cell can use the antibody to target the virus for destruction. It appears to be an important…
