Alexander D. Gitlin and Michel C. Nussenzweig reflect on the discovery of two lineages of adaptive immune cells, and how it influenced vaccination, cancer therapy and the development of a class of antibody-based drugs.
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Gitlin, A., Nussenzweig, M. Immunology: Fifty years of B lymphocytes. Nature 517, 139–141 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/517139a
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