Protein-printing technique gives snapshots of immune syst...(ds Papa. Multiple booster injections ar...)

Date:11/3/2008

ds Papa. "Multiple booster injections are given irrespective of the actual response." If a cost-effective, portable device could work on this method, it could help gauge the progression of vaccine boosters or infectious illnesses on the basis of patients' real-time immune responses, and help doctors weigh treatment options based on those responses.

Moreover, Love says, further development of the technique could make it possible to quickly determine whether an infection is bacterial or viral, figure whether a cancer patient has built up enough "immunity" to his or her cancer to forgo another round of immunotherapy, and obtain complete profiles of an immune response with as little as a drop of blooda crucial ability when testing infants and children.

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Contact: Eric Bender bender@wi.mit.edu 617-258-9183 Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Source:Eurekalert

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