{"id":858,"date":"2010-07-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2010\/07\/the-inverse-of-immunity-subscription.html"},"modified":"2010-07-08T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T09:00:00","slug":"the_inverse_of_immunity_subscr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2010\/07\/the_inverse_of_immunity_subscr.html","title":{"rendered":"The inverse of immunity (subscription)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vaccination.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/files\/vaccination.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10px\" align=\"right\"\/><em>By Elie Dolgin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ever since Edward Jenner discovered the smallpox vaccine two centuries ago, immunization efforts have almost exclusively focused on activating the immune system. But when it comes to multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune disorders, researchers hope to switch off\u2014rather than ramp up\u2014the body&#8217;s defenses. Even an automotive service mogul has taken the idea on board. Elie Dolgin investigates how the idea of vaccination is being turned on its head. <em>(Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nm\/journal\/v16\/n7\/full\/nm0710-740.html\">here<\/a> to continue reading)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/_lulu\/\">lu_lu<\/a> via Flickr Creative Commons<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elie Dolgin Ever since Edward Jenner discovered the smallpox vaccine two centuries ago, immunization efforts have almost exclusively focused on activating the immune system. But when it comes to multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune disorders, researchers hope to switch off\u2014rather than ramp up\u2014the body&#8217;s defenses. Even an automotive service mogul has taken the idea on board. Elie Dolgin investigates how the idea of vaccination is being turned on its head. (Click here to continue reading) Image by lu_lu via Flickr Creative Commons&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2010\/07\/the_inverse_of_immunity_subscr.html#wpn-more-858\" class=\"more-link\"> &hellip; Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2010\/07\/the_inverse_of_immunity_subscr.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}