In a newly published study, Yale University researchers detail how they engineered a system that tricks bacteria to deliver a safer vaccine, which could be used to combat cancer as well as a wide variety of infectious diseases. Vaccines that employ weakened but live pathogens to trigger immune responses have inherent safety issues but Yale [...]

A new study details how researchers used injections of non-depleting antibodies to reverse the onset of Type I diabetes in mice genetically bred to develop the disease. Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have used injections of antibodies to rapidly reverse the onset of Type I [...]

New research points suggests that DNA sequences from tumor cells can also be used to direct the body’s immune system to attack cancer cells, according to scientists from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who published their findings in the journal Nature on February 8th. The immune system relies on certain parameters [...]