Winning the battle against leukemia: Positive early results in clinical trial for DNA vaccine
Friday, December 7, 2012 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Early results of a trial to treat leukemia with a WT1 DNA vaccine, has shown robust vaccine-specific antibody responses in all vaccinated patients evaluated to date. Furthermore, T cell immune responses, including those of the "killer T cells," were detected. Antibody and T cell responses are strong signals of the DNA vaccine's potential to treat the disease.