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Researchers develop new way to test strength of immune response

October 28, 2016

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The immune system orchestrates large and small scale attacks on innumerous targets: viruses, bacteria, cancer, but it also misfires causing allergy or autoimmune reactions. Compounding the problem, not every immune reaction is equal – sometimes a necessary reaction is not strong enough or at times it’s too strong.

Now Thomas Jefferson University researchers have developed a new way to determine the strength of an immune response to a particular antigen.

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