The Science and Medicine of Human Immunology

Overview

Journal Science

Specialty Science

Date 2020 Sep 25

PMID 32973003

Citations 111

Authors

Bali Pulendran

Mark M Davis

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Abstract

Although the development of effective vaccines has saved countless lives from infectious diseases, the basic workings of the human immune system are complex and have required the development of animal models, such as inbred mice, to define mechanisms of immunity. More recently, new strategies and technologies have been developed to directly explore the human immune system with unprecedented precision. We discuss how these approaches are advancing our mechanistic understanding of human immunology and are facilitating the development of vaccines and therapeutics for infection, autoimmune diseases, and cancer.

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