Sunday, May 03, 2009

Process controlling T cell growth and production identified

Source: Baylor College of Medicine
Date: May 3, 2009

Summary:

Identifying one of the processes that plays a role in naďve 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.