DoriVac Illustration (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

DoriVac Illustration

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Due to their nanoprecise spacing of adjuvant molecules (shown as green ribbons on one face of their squareblock structures), DoriVac vaccines, after being taken up by antigen-presenting immune cells, can more effectively engage the cells’ activation machinery (shown in purple) in intracellular compartments than free and unorganized adjuvant molecules.

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