Wistar scientists find key to strengthening immune response to chronic infection
Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 11:56
in Health & Medicine
PHILADELPHIA -- (August 6, 2009) -- A team of researchers from The Wistar Institute has identified a protein that could serve as a target for reprogramming immune system cells exhausted by exposure to chronic viral infection into more effective "soldiers" against certain viruses like HIV, hepatitis C, and hepatitis B, as well as some cancers, such as melanoma.