{"id":2001,"date":"2026-07-22T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:36:27","slug":"function-crucial-antibody-far-more-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/function-crucial-antibody-far-more-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Function crucial antibody far more complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"display:flex; align-items:flex-start; gap:30px;\">\n<div style=\"flex:1; padding:0; margin:0;\">\n<p>            A surprising discovery about the <a href=\"https:\/\/mailings.uu.nl\/i\/LEwurFJ6PijJsiZf12p-bJef1oNLQLpJ\">antibody IgA<\/a> is reshaping our understanding of the human immune system. Researchers at UU&#8217;s Bijvoet Cenntre found that this key antibody exists in a far more complex form than previously thought. This\u00a0opens new possibilities for developing IgA-based therapies to treat cancer, infectious diseases and autoimmune disorders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:0;\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/mailings.uu.nl\/i\/R6orXc8cn-sFrxAm_rU68ZwyS42c1uk_\"\n                   style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><br \/>\n                    Read more<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width:250px; margin:0; padding:0;\">\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" \n                src=\"https:\/\/mailings.uu.nl\/c\/hOmk1hd6Lhighhiiq_fnNw\/media\/UBC-Dimeric-IgA1.jpg\"\n                alt=\"Function crucial antibody far more complex\"\n                style=\"\n                    width:250px;\n                    max-width:100%;\n                    height:auto;\n                    display:block;\n                    margin:0;\n                \"\n            \/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising discovery about the antibody IgA is reshaping our understanding of the human immune system. Researchers at UU&#8217;s Bijvoet Cenntre found that this key antibody exists in a far more complex form than previously thought. This\u00a0opens new possibilities for developing IgA-based therapies to treat cancer, infectious diseases and autoimmune disorders. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":9520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"page_builder":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[408,397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_freestyle","category-research"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/UBC-Dimeric-IgA1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9564,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/9564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}