When Albrecht Durer and other Renaissance artists painstakingly etched images onto plates, swabbed ink into the fine grooves and transferred the images to paper with a press, they never could have guessed that centuries later the same technique would uncover the secrets of human cells.
The transportation of antibodies from a mother to her newborn child is vital for the development of that child’s nascent immune system. Those antibodies, donated by transfer across the placenta before birth or via breast milk after birth, help shape a baby’s response to foreign pathogens and may influence the later occurrence of autoimmune diseases.
Scientists have detected previously unnoticed chemical signals that individual cells in the immune system use to communicate with each other over short distances.
Scientists have detected previously unnoticed chemical signals that individual cells in the immune system use to communicate with each other over short distances.
ImmunoVaccine Technologies Inc. (IVT), a vaccine development company, announced receipt of patent approval from the Japanese Patent Office for its vaccine platform.