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Baylor College of Medicine
Process controlling T cell growth and production identified
May 20th, 2009
HOUSTON – (May 3, 2009) – Identifying one of the processes that plays a role in naive and memory T-cells' growth and production could one day lead to better vaccines and possibly more effective cancer immunotherapy, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in a report that appears in the current edition of Nature Immunology. In previous work, Dr. Daniel Lacorazza, assistant professor of pathology at BCM, along with his research team, identified a transcription factor, ELF4, which regulates blood stem cells. A transcription factor is a protein that regulates how genes are translated into a form that leads to the making of the proteins...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-05-20)
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