NEW U OF S IMMUNOTHERAPY TECHNIQUE HOLDS PROMISE FOR CURING FOOD ALLERGIES

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SASKATOON, SK - University of Saskatchewan (U of S) scientists have developed a new immunotherapy technique that nearly eliminates the allergic response to peanut and egg white proteins in food-allergic mice, reducing the anaphylactic response by up to 90 per cent with only one treatment. "This discovery reverses food allergies in mice, and we have many people with allergies volunteering their own cells for us to use in lab testing to move this research forward," says professor John Gordon, lead scientist behind the discovery that appears in the current issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.