The double helix and immunology.
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Abstract
The immune system can recognize and produce antibodies to virtually any molecule in the Universe. This enormous diversity arises from the ingenious reshuffling of DNA sequences encoding components of the immune system. Immunology is an example of a field completely transformed during the past 50 years by the discovery of the structure of DNA and the emergence of DNA technologies that followed.
Medical subject headings
- Antibody Diversity
- DNA
- Gene Rearrangement
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell