Peptide-based hydrogels have been proven to be preeminent biomedical materials due to
their high water content, tunable mechanical stability, great biocompatibility and excellent …

Abstract Poly (α-l-lysine)(PLL) is a class of water-soluble, cationic biopolymer composed of α-
l-lysine structural units. The previous decade witnessed tremendous progress in the …

Cancer immunotherapy is quickly growing to be the fourth most important cancer therapy,
after surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. Immunotherapy is the most promising …

Breakthroughs in materials engineering have accelerated the progress of immunotherapy in
preclinical studies. The interplay of chemistry and materials has resulted in improved …

Therapeutic cancer vaccines, which are designed to amplify tumor-specific T cell responses,
have been envisioned as one of the most powerful tools for effective cancer immunotherapy …

Despite the great success of vaccines over two centuries, the conventional strategy is based
on attenuated/altered microorganisms. However, this is not effective for all microbes and …

Promising vaccine adjuvants of self‐assembling peptide hydrogels for protein ovalbumin
(OVA) are introduced in this study. The hydrogels are formed by the enzyme of phosphatase …

Abstract MHC class I (MHC I) antigen presentation of exogenous antigens (so called “cross
presentation”) is a central mechanism of CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses …

Despite the progress of conventional vaccines, improvements are clearly required due to
concerns about the weak immunogenicity of these vaccines, intrinsic instability in vivo …

Vaccination is the most valuable and cost-effective health measure to prevent and control
the spread of infectious diseases. A significant number of infectious diseases and chronic …