Antibodies Quotes:

An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate tissue culture fluid, and when we add an antigen, the lymphocytes will produce specific antibody molecules, in the absense of any nerve cells. I find it astonishing that the immune system embodies a degree of complexity which suggests some more or less superficial though striking analogies with human language, and that this cognitive system has evolved and functions without assistance of the brain.

- Niels Kaj Jerne

topic: Animal, Cells, Brain, Vertebrates, Antibodies

We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules.

- Cesar Milstein

topic: Science, Molecules, Eras, Antibodies, New Era

What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences. The secret of antibody diversity would emerge from that. Fortunately at the time I was sufficiently ignorant of the subject not to realise how naive I was being.

- Cesar Milstein

topic: Simple, Two, Diversity, Antibodies

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

- Mark Nepo

source: FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Jul 16, 2015

topic: Heart, Violence, Infection, Antibodies

Sadness is poetic. You're lucky to live sad moments. When you let yourself be sad, your body has antibodies. It has happiness that comes rushing in to meet the sadness.

- Louis C. K.

topic: Sadness, Rushing, Lucky, Rushing In, Antibodies

We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who work to save the earth are its antibodies.

- Jeremy Rifkin

topic: Cells, Earth, Invisible, Antibodies

When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

- Nate Mendel

source: "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. March 10, 2000.

topic: Pregnancy, Flu, Tests, Hepatitis, Positive Results

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

- John Updike

topic: Lying, Firsts, Deceit, Being Deceived, Antibodies

So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery

- Robert Montgomery

topic: Rejection, Able, Kidneys, Antibodies

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

- Ian Fleming

topic: Birthday, Hands, Age, Getting Married, 40th Birthday

I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Children, Light, Wind, Punisher, Antibodies

In my work, I present questions and concerns. [It's] the opportunity to put a system of antibodies into circulation, without any pretense of making the world a better place, but to start a conversation with the world.

- Paolo Pellegrin

topic: Opportunity, World, Conversation, Antibodies

Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions or mutations [heresies] are present, fundamentalism will churn out antibodies to keep the population under control and prevent mutations from getting out of hand.

- Darrel Ray

source: "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

topic: Hands, Long, Religion, Antibodies

Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to stay on top of the issues of democracy and freedom.

- Harry Belafonte

topic: Freedom, Thinking, Issues, Antibodies

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

- Queen Rania of Jordan

topic: Girl, Country, Looks, Antibodies

I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.

- John Cleese

topic: Thinking, Perspective, Research, Medical Research, Antibodies

I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.

- Quentin S. Crisp

topic: Book, Writing, Creativity, Antibodies

We're very enthused about the idea that in the third trimester we actually give the mother a vaccine and her antibodies, the protective things that the immune system makes, actually pass through to the baby, both when the baby is born, and through the mother's milk. Because the baby's immune system is actually not very strong for that first few months, using the mother's immune system to do this - it's a very exciting idea and something that we're investing heavily in.

- Bill Gates

source: Source: www.geekwire.com

topic: Antibodies

Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Thinking, Two, Tragedy, Antibodies

On April 2, the nurses started my first round of five intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) infusions. The clear IV bags hung on a metal pole above my head, their liquid trickling down into my vein. Each of those ordinary-looking bags contained the healthy antibodies of over a thousand blood donors and cost upwards of $20,000 per infusion. One thousand tourniquets, one thousand nurses, one thousand veins, one thousand blood-sugar regulating cookies, all just to help one patient.

- Susannah Cahalan

source: Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

topic: Blood, Nurse, Healthy, Antibodies, Blood Sugar

Thyroid Panel (blood test)-Abnormal thyroid hormone levels are a common cause of anxiety, depression, forgetfulness, confusion, and lethargy. Having low thyroid levels decreases overall brain activity, which can impair your thinking, judgment, and self-control and make it very hard for you to feel good. Low thyroid functioning can make it nearly impossible to manage weight effectively. To know your thyroid levels, you need to know these figures: thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) Free T3 Free T4 Thyroid antibodies (thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin antibodies)

- Daniel Amen

topic: Thinking, Self, Blood, Antibodies, Anxiety Depression

A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions.

- Nolan Bushnell

topic: America, Cookies, Want, Cookie Cutters, Corporate America