{"id":"f803e6f7-c90e-4842-8edb-e0df0723fb70","url":"https://www.futurity.org/how-the-body-creates-antibodies-3338762/","domain":"futurity.org","outlet":{"name":"Futurity","country":null,"cred":null,"lean":null,"curated":false},"title":"How the body makes effective antibodies from chaos","plainHeadline":null,"rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["1. A study tracked thousands of B cells in mice to understand antibody production.","2. Findings challenge the traditional view of germinal centers as selection machines.","3. Germinal centers are more selective and operate with a random-like process.","4. B cells mutate and compete to improve binding affinity to pathogens.","5. The research utilized Deep Mutational Scanning to analyze mutations' effects.","6. Germinal centers favor easily generated mutations over the strongest ones.","7. The study provides insights for vaccine development against influenza and HIV.","8. Germinal centers may serve as a model for studying evolution broadly."],"topics":["Science"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-06-23T19:12:16.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-06-23T19:30:09.860Z","story":null}