Scientists are now working towards
developing efficient vaccines out of
'complements', proteins which safeguard against disease-causing
pathogens (New Scientist, Vo1149,
No 2014).
Douglas Fearon and his team at
the University of Cambridge, UK,
and immunologists from Stanford
University in Palo Alto, California,
US, are experimenting with the
complement protein C3. They
believe that if pieces of C3 are
attatched to a simple protein, it
would transform the protein into
'immunological enemy number
one'.
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