Study reveals current multi-component vaccines may need reworking

Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 14:42 in Health & Medicine

Current strategies for designing vaccines against HIV and cancers, for instance, may enable some components in multi-component vaccines to cancel the effect of others on the immune system, eliminating their ability to provide protection, according to an article to be published shortly in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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