Key To Strengthening Immune Response To Chronic Infection Found

Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 21:15 in Health & Medicine

A team of researchers 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.

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