If specific immune responses could be toned down without completely suppressing immunity, it would provide a boon for the treatment of transplant rejection, autoimmune disease and allergy. Erika Check reports.
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Check, E. The virtue of tolerance. Nature 418, 364–366 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/418364a
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