Researchers identified several antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein from a convalescent COVID-19 patient. Tests found some can inhibit complement hyperactivation and could potentially lead to new ...

In the last five years, neuronal pentraxins have emerged as potential markers of synaptic loss. In the case of NPTX2, researchers may now be able to explain why. In the March 29 Science Translational ...

A complement C4 (also known as a complement component 4, or simply C4) is a test to measure the level of C4 proteins you have in your blood. These proteins play a role in how your immune system ...

Age-related macular degeneration is the most common cause of blindness in Western populations. Susceptibility is influenced by age and by genetic and environmental factors. Complement activation is ...

Immunotherapy is increasingly becoming standard therapy in cancer, with technology, such as checkpoint inhibitors and cell therapy, raising the efficacy bar in many forms of the disease. But the ...

When you are doing arithmetic by hand because your calculator’s batteries just gave up and your laptop is in the other room, it’s best if you can check your calculations with a different process than ...

The complement of set B, B’, contains all the elements that are not in set B. \(P’\) is the complement of set \(P\). The intersection of one set and the complement of another set identifies elements ...