Clues To How Humans Evolved Allergies Offered By Ancient Antibody Molecule

Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have discovered how evolution may have lumbered humans with allergy problems. The team from the Randall Division of Cell & Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London are working on a molecule vital to a chicken’s immune system which represents the evolutionary ancestor of the human antibodies that cause allergic reactions.

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Filed under: Allergies on June 17th, 2008