Scientists reported recently that a therapeutic vaccine for precancerous cervical lesions induced strong immune responses. But those immune responses were only apparent when the team analyzed the cervical tissue itself, not when they used the standard approach of looking for activated immune cells in the blood.
It is an article of faith among many health-conscious individuals that antioxidants are good for you – an article of faith that leads to a lot of vitamin sales. And in the typical “more is better” rationale that fuels many of those sales in the first place, most supplements provide many times the U.S. recommended daily allowance (RDA).
Scientists from the Taiwanese Academia Sinica have reported that they have developed an influenza vaccine that was broadly protective in mice and ferrets by focusing not on the amino acid sequence of the vaccine antigen, but on how many sugars were attached to those amino acids.
Scientists from the Taiwanese Academia Sinica reported that they have developed an influenza vaccine that was broadly protective in mice and ferrets by focusing not on the amino acid sequence of the vaccine antigen, but on how many sugars were attached to those amino acids.
Sex organs are controlled by sex hormones, to nobody’s surprise – that’s their point. But now, researchers have shown that blood, too, is affected by sex hormones.
Researchers have reported new insights into the genetic and neural mechanisms that underlie schizophrenia, and how the disease is related to other neurodevelopmental disorders at the cellular level.
When they work, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) have it all: The precise targeting capability of an antibody allows clinicians to treat patients with drugs that are too toxic to be delivered systemically.
Scientists have engineered a nanoparticle that attaches to white blood cells in the blood stream and essentially uses them to hunt down circulating tumor cells (CTC).
