Recent Entries

• What Are Chelating Agents?

  by Samantha James December 27, 2021
  Chelating agents are organic compounds capable of linking together metal ions to form complex ring-like structures called chelates. They are also known as chelants, chelators, or sequestering agents.  What Are Natural Chelating Agents? Citric, malic, lactic, and tartaric acids and ce...

• What is Endotoxin shock?

  by Samantha James December 24, 2021
  When a large number of gram-negative pathogens in the lesion or bloodstream die, and a large amount of endotoxin released into the blood, endotoxemia can occur. A large amount of endotoxin acts on the body's macrophages, neutrophils, endothelial cells, platelets, as well as the complement syste...

• Evidence Indicates mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Protection for Pregnan

  by Samantha James December 22, 2021
  It's reported that over 125,000 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases are pregnant women, including thousands of hospitalized cases and 161 deaths by the end of September 2021. Though such an appalling number of SARS-CoV-2 infections happened to pregnant women, most of them are still on the sidelines ...

• New Nature study confirms that mRNA vaccines are effective agai

  by Samantha James December 22, 2021
  Since the emergence of the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 in many parts of the world, the number of so-called "breakthrough infections"—SARS-CoV-2 infection despite vaccination—has increased. Although the overall number is small, it raises questions about the efficacy of vaccine protect...

• Glycosylation modification of therapeutic antibodies

  by Samantha James December 20, 2021
  The structural and functional heterogeneity of therapeutic antibodies (IgG type) is achieved by post-translational modifications (PTM), among which the glycosylation of antibody Fc is the most heterogeneous one that can affect the stability of the molecule and its interaction with the Fc recept...