Antibody [noun]

It can be done via a vaccine or via prior illness that you develop the antibodies.

We want better treatments, yes, but we also want to have enough people with antibodies against the virus that it can’t easily jump across different populations.

Called nanobodies, these proteins help fight off invaders in the body, but are smaller and thought to be hardier than their human antibody kin.

The idea is that a small enough dose of the virus will prevent the person from getting severely ill but will be enough that their immune system’s develop antibodies for future protection.

If plasma wasn’t tested for antibody levels, well—it was probably better than nothing.

He knew the materials for each antibody test only amounted to about $8, and it gets read on the spot — similar to an at-home pregnancy test.

Preliminary data indicates that the vaccines stimulate multiple parts of the immune system, including antibodies and T-cells.

This is most often gauged by looking for antibodies to the virus in blood samples taken from the inoculated volunteers.

Recent data released by New York City’s Department of Healthfound that, across the five boroughs, around 27 percent of those tested had antibodies to the novel coronavirus.

Later, if the person is exposed to the actual virus or bacteria, the antibodies recognize it.