While vaccines are commonly used today for a variety of diseases and have proven efficacious for disease prevention, some vaccines do not efficiently activate an immune response. Adjuvants can be included in a given vaccine to potentiate immune activation and improve the quality of the vaccine. Th…

Natural products and semi-synthetic derivatives derived from them have been used for anticancer drugs or drug leads for many years. However, side-effects such as myelosuppression and secondary leukemia have been reported. Furthermore, these natural products can be difficult to use for targeting sp…

Molecular changes due to malignant tumors and toxicity of chemotherapeutic regimen suppress the immune system of cancer patients. This immunosuppression also leaves patients vulnerable to opportunistic infections and reactivation of latent viral or mycobacterial infections. Immunostimulation, or a…