ADJUVANTS

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• A Chinese research team has now created two novel broad-spectrum adjuvants that can dramatically boost the immune response to vaccines using computer-aided molecular design and machine learning.

Adjuvant

• An adjuvant is a substance that increases or modulates the immune response to a vaccine.
• The word "adjuvant" comes from the Latin word adiuvare, meaning to help or aid.
• An immunologic adjuvant is defined as any substance that acts to accelerate, prolong, or enhance antigen-specific immune responses when used in combination with specific vaccine antigens.
• Aluminum salts, such as aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, and aluminum potassium sulfate have been used safely in vaccines for more than 70 years.

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