Improving drug development with a vast map of the immune system

The human immune system is a network made up of trillions of cells that are constantly circulating throughout the body. The cellular network orchestrates interactions with every organ and tissue to carry out an impossibly long list of functions that scientists are still working to understand. All that complexity limits our ability to predict which patients will respond to treatments and which ones might suffer debilitating side effects. The issue often leads pharmaceutical companies to stop developing drugs that could help certain patients, halting clinical trials even when drugs show…

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