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SCIENCE: 5. 7. 2013

Solution to Vaccine Mystery Starts to Crystallize

• Mitch Leslie

Science 5 July 2013: 26-27.

For 80 years, people have received injections of alum as part of vaccines, but only recently have researchers begun to explain how the compound helps stimulate immunity

 

Immunology

Fueling Function Over Expansion in T Cells

• Joseph P. Argus and
• Steven J. Bensinger

Science 5 July 2013: 37-38.

Cellular metabolism plays an active role in regulating immune cell function.

Immunology

Making Macrophages Eat Cancer

• Michael H. Kershaw and
• Mark J. Smyth

Science 5 July 2013: 41-42.

Antibody-based therapies to treat cancer may get a boost from an adjuvant that prevents cancer cells from escaping engulfment by macrophages.

 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6141.toc