Vaccine design: Three is better than two when boosting vaccine effectiveness
Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 22:21
in Health & Medicine
To boost vaccine effectiveness molecules known as adjuvants are often included in the vaccine formulation. Adjuvants are most commonly used to increase the magnitude of vaccine-induced immune responses, specifically T cell immune responses. However, the quality of a T cell response can be more important than its quantity, and a team of researchers has now identified a way to increase the quality but not the quantity of a vaccine-induced T cell response in mice.