New research suggests the skin does much more than detect damage or keep pathogens out. By tracing how skin cells respond to ...

Researchers are redesigning lipid nanoparticles to do more than shuttle mRNA into cells, with preclinical studies suggesting engineered particles can influence immune metabolism in ways that may ...

A collaborative effort led by Professor Wanli Liu 's team at Tsinghua University has uncovered a sophisticated mechanism by which keratinocytes, the predominant cell type in the skin's epidermis, ...

The skin is far more than a simple physical barrier. These two researches address a fundamental question in immunology: How does a localized skin ...

RNA vaccines saved millions of lives during COVID-19 but have limitations like waning immunity and complex production. Scientists are now testing a new platform called DoriVac, which uses folded DNA ...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines to the forefront of global health care. After their clinical ...

A futuristic “DNA origami” vaccine platform may one day outperform mRNA shots while being easier to produce and distribute. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists have developed a new DNA origami–based ...

Background Withdrawal of prolonged nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA) treatment results in hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) loss in some subjects with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), potentially revealing ...

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Chronic HBV infection remains a major global health burden, with current antiviral therapies effectively suppressing viral replication but rarely achieving functional cure. Adaptive immunity is ...

This new article publication from Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, discusses how an innovative and stable mRNA-LNP microneedle vaccine elicits humoral and multifunctional cellular immune responses. During ...