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Saturday, August 30, 2008

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Hope for a New Anti-Cancer Vaccine

In the search for cancer vaccines, researchers are often foiled by the lack of antigens - proteins, usually, that generate antibodies and can cause an immune response - that are tumor-specific and not found elsewhere in the body. If a patient is immunized with antigens that the body also expresses somewhere else, autoimmune complications can result.

Bioterror in Context

How and why the threat of bioterrorism has been so greatly exaggerated. A Miller-McCune interview of UCLA's William R. Clark.

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