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Cancer Therapy
New insight may improve the potential of cancer vaccines
September 14th, 2005
A special stretch of genetic material may turn off the immune suppression that stymies attempts to fight cancer with a vaccine, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) at Houston have found. In a report in Science, Dr. Rong-Fu Wang, a professor in the BCM Center for Cell and Gene Therapy and department of immunology, and his colleagues described a new strategy to turn off the function of a special group of T cells to suppress immune response to tumors and even infectious diseases. "Since 1995, many groups have tried to develop a vaccine for the treatment of cancer," said Wang, also a member of the faculty of the BCM Graduate School of...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2005-09-14)
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