🔬 Science Jun 23, 2026 · Rockefeller University

How the body makes effective antibodies from chaos

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How the body makes effective antibodies from chaos
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A new study tracking thousands of B cells across more than 100 germinal centers in mice reveals how the immune system consistently produces highly effective antibodies.
The findings overturn longstanding ideas about how germinal centers function, revealing that they are far more selective than once thought, and challenge the idea that antibody improvement is driven mainly by rare growth “bursts” among the most successful B cells.
This discovery could have implications for immune cell

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