Penn study demonstrates new way to boost immune memory

After a vaccination or an infection, the human immune system remembers to keep protecting against invaders it has already encountered, with the aid of specialised B-cells and T-cells. Immunological memory has long been the subject of intense study, but the underlying cellular mechanisms regulating the generation and persistence of long-lived memory T cells remain largely undefined. Now, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have found that a common anti-diabetic drug might enhance the effectiveness of vaccines. The findings are described this week in an advanced online publication of Nature...

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