Two small companies developing therapeutic vaccines against hypertension are blazing a trail for immune treatments that address diseases of lifestyle with massive markets. But doubts linger over the safety of eliciting an immune response to normal body constituents. Jill U. Adams investigates.
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Adams, J. Hypertension's shot in the arm. Nat Biotechnol 26, 1327–1329 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1208-1327
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