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Health & Medicine - Tuesday, October 27, 2009 15:49 - 1 Comment
‘Conveyor belt’ route to better vaccines
Graduate student Kathryn Knoop discovered that a protein made by the body called RANKL is essential for the proper development of M cells (seen above)—a type of cell found in the intestines that may be a key to effective mucosal vaccines.
EMORY (US)—Scientists have identified a protein that could enable more vaccines to be delivered through the mouth or nose, thus strengthening the body’s defenses where the body first encounters many bacteria and viruses. Continue…
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