Designer vaccines may tailor immune response

In Margaret Atwood’s futuristic The Year of the Flood, sex workers wear “Biofilm Bodygloves” to protect themselves from infection. It turns out, though, that a prototype bodyglove may have already been invented. We call it the skin. Living inside the dermis, alongside connective tissue, blood vessels and collagen, are immune system T cells, armed with the ability to fight off infection. read more

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