Mice with human body's defenses

Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

Therapeutic antibodies can be an efficient alternative when common drugs do not work anymore. However, antibodies obtained from blood of animals such as mice could not be used: The human immune system recognizes them as foreign and rejects them. Scientists have now succeeded in developing a promising approach to solve this problem.

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