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Jenna J Guthmiller1, Julianna Han2, Henry A Utset3

  • 1Department of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. jguthmiller@uchicago.edu.

Nature
|December 23, 2021
PubMed
概括

科学家们发现了一种针对流感血凝的新型抗体. 这些抗体对各种流感菌株提供广泛的保护,并可能是开发通用流感疫苗的关键.

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