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Yeasts: the basis for new vaccines
Email: Tudor Toma - ttoma@mail.dntis.ro News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010502-02
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Efficient cell-mediated immunity requires the activation of dendritic cells (DC). Currently there is a great deal of interest in vaccine strategies that employ DC immunostimulatory complexes. In May Nature Medicine Andrew Stubbs and colleagues from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver suggest that genetically engineered yeasts may be capable of acting as an immunostimulatory complex.
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