Playing TAG with Vaccines: TCD scientists make vaccine breakthrough

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have discovered a brand new protein in the immune system which  if targeted  has the potential of developing more effective vaccines.  The research team, led by INFECTIOUS co-curator and Professor of  Biochemistry, LUKE O'NEILL, have found a protein which they have named TAG.   TAG  limits a key process in the body that is needed for vaccines to work.  “If we can now devise a way to interfere with TAG, we may be able to boost experimental vaccines for diseases such as HIV and malaria ”, explained Professor  O’Neill.  The findings are published online in the world leading Immunology journal, Nature Immunology.

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