On the entire, typical vaccines prime the immune system to reply. But scientists are additionally engaged on “inverse vaccines” that train the immune system to face down.
Last week Jeffrey Hubbell and his colleagues on the University of Chicago reported that an inverse vaccine they developed had efficiently reversed a illness just like a number of sclerosis in mice. Hubbell has examined this method earlier than, however solely as a manner of stopping the illness—not curing it.
These immune-dampening photographs may result in a complete host of therapies to deal with autoimmune ailments. And in truth, Anokion, an organization Hubbell cofounded, has already launched medical trials to check whether or not one of these inverse vaccine would possibly assist folks with a number of sclerosis and celiac illness. Read the total story.
—Cassandra Willyard
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