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June 5, 2002
U.S. IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Iowa Scientists Study Infection Response to Improve Vaccines" Associated Press (www.ap.org) (06/03/02)
University of Iowa associate professor of microbiology John Harty is researching T cells and their ability to multiply, fight infection, and retain memory cells. Harty believes that increasing the amount of memory cells in the body will increase the amount of time a vaccine is effective against disease. Harty's study, which appears online in Nature Immunology, was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and a fellowship from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
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