Friday, November 4, 2011  Creatures Medicine 101: Antigens and
Antibodies  Antibodies fight antigens. Right? Every chemical
list says so. Even the hoverdoc's cure glossary says so.
Well... as much sense as that makes, I'm having an impossible
time proving that true. I can't find any chemical reaction genes
that indicate as such, and if I inject a norn with an antibody
and follow it up with an antigen injection, it doesn't seem to
decay any faster than if no antibodies were present.  No.. the
way the reaction equation works is something like this: Antigen
X = Antibody X + side effect X For example, the CFE bruin genome
states that 2 antigen 0 = 12 Antibody 0 + 1 histamine B
Antibodies don't seem to actually fight antigens. Antibodies are
what the immune system turns antibodies into; essentially, they
are a by-product of the body's attempt to fight the infection.
In this second graph, I manually lowered the concentration of
antibody 0 several times (hence the jagged blue line) and the
concentration had absolu