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Antibodies Vaccines - Is There a Different Kind of Breath?

The idea is that as you're getting the multiple exposures from the vaccine, i you're seting up something called a germinal reaction. The b cells making the antibody go through sort of natural selection process um and diversify their m antibodies a little bit against the epitopes that they recognize. But we're sending setting up a really cool natural selection process in germinal centre to allow the b cells to make a broad response against those epitopes.

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