A recently published article in the ‘Science’ journal has revealed for the first time that the bad antibodies can turn out to be good through ‘redemption’ process . Bad antibodies are known to react against the body tissues and organs. One of the prime examples of this phenomena is auto-immune disorders. In order to prevent this from happening, these antibodies are silenced.
This army of silenced antibodies is hidden in the B cells kept in the anergic state so that they cannot harm the body tissues internally anymore. Ever since the discovery of silenced cells, there has been a question that why the body keeps these silenced cells in the first place instead of destroying them completely. This three-decade long question has been finally answered! As per the new findings and observations, the army in these selected cells can be reawakened to fight the invader microbes and viruses- but…
