Engineering synthetic vaccines using cues from natural immunity

Engineering synthetic vaccines using cues from natural immunity

Vaccines aim to protect against or treat diseases through manipulation of the immune response, promoting either immunity or tolerance. In the former case, vaccines generate antibodies and T cells poised to protect against future pathogen encounter or attack diseased cells such as tumours; in the lat...

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Main Authors: Swartz, Melody A. (Author), Irvine, Darrell J (Author), Szeto, Gregory (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Contributor), Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor), Irvine, Darrell J. (Contributor), Szeto, Gregory Lee (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2014-12-01T18:53:03Z.
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