Source: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Date: March 1, 2007
Summary:
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that immune cells can differ in their inheritance of molecules that regulate cell fate, and therefore what role they play in fighting infection. The research appears this week in an early online issue of Science. The leader researcher in the study believes the findings will change the way researchers study how vaccines work, and that the results may one day be applied to a more targeted approach to developing vaccines and generating the variety of immune cells that are needed to fight off infections.
