Engineering synthetic vaccines using cues from natural immunity

Vaccines aim to protect against or treat diseases through manipulation of the immune response, promoting either immunity or tolerance. In the former case, vaccines generate antibodies and T cells poised to protect against future pathogen encounter or attack diseased cells such as tumours; in the lat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Swartz, Melody A., Irvine, Darrell J, Szeto, Gregory
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91967
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7604-1333