RIKEN Develops Artificial Lymph Node with Immune Function

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Dec 16, 2004

RIKEN Develops Artificial Lymph Node with Immune Function

Tokyo (JCNN) - RIKEN has announced that the Research Unit for Immune

Surveillance at the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology has

succeeded in creating an artificial lymph node, which properly functions as

an immune system.

By constructing an artificial immune system akin to a " real " lymph node in

mice, the research group has confirmed that the artificial node has

demonstrated enhanced immune responses.

This discovery suggests a new methodology in immunological study; moreover,

it will lead to the development of innovative devices applicable in

treatments of emerging infectious diseases, immunodeficiency and tumors.

Details of the research are available in the December issue of US scientific

magazine Nature Biotechnology, under the title of " Generation of a synthetic

lymphoid tissue-like organoid in mice. "

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