matterhacker

BBC reports on another interesting article in Nature today.  However, I can’t seem to find it in today’s issue of Nature.  Scientists from McGill University have found a way to increase the immune system response of mice.  The work comes from the lab of Prof. Sonenberg.  From the BBC article, the researchers turned off 2 genes responsible for repressing interferon production in mice cells and thereby boosted the immune response of the mice.  However, they say that the method cannot be used in human cells for now.