July 24, 2008 at 8:43 am · Filed under Medical News, Immune System / Vaccines
A team of Canadian and Finnish scientists has identified a protein able to stimulate the production of T-cells, the white blood cells involved in the recognition and the elimination of infectious agents. The discovery by researchers of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the Universite de Montreal in Canada and the University of Oulu in Finland - published in the latest edition of the journal Immunity - could help to combat age-related declines in immune response.
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July 21, 2008 at 8:41 am · Filed under Medical News, Immune System / Vaccines
Pharmaceutical companies, their investors and their outsource service partners are accustomed to working and thinking in terms of well-defined drugs - APIs or NCEs that can be clearly specified, synthesized, purified and packaged. But as technology advances extend the reach of clinicians, several emerging therapeutic areas are nearing commercial importance - areas that do not fit the traditional ‘fire up the pill presses’ business model. One of the most colorful, in terms of the wide range of therapeutic approaches, involves therapies that attempt to stimulate the immune system to achieve a positive therapeutic effect against a pre-existing condition using what are known as therapeutic vaccines.
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