Parasite vaccines within reach
Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 13:56
in Biology & Nature
Even though parasites are complex creatures, the mammalian immune response to them is surprisingly simple, leading University of California, Berkeley, researchers to predict that creating vaccines for parasitic diseases such as malaria may be more straightforward than initially thought.
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