A VACCINE that turns part of the immune system off could provide a treatment
for psoriasis, a potentially disfiguring skin disease.
“With a single shot you get long-lasting protection,” says Phil Hodgkin, an
immunologist at the Centenary Institute in Sydney.
Some scientists think that psoriasis, which affects 1 in 50 people, is
triggered when the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues. Most
researchers trying to find cures for such autoimmune disorders focus on finding
the human proteins that trigger the diseases.
But James Watson of Genesis Research & Development in Auckland, New
Zealand, took a different tack—altering the immune system’s…
