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Category: Microbial Genetics and Molecular Biology
Dendritic Cells in the Immune System—History, Lineages, Tissues, Tolerance, and Immunity, Page 1 of 2
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Ralph Steinman was posthumously awarded a Nobel Prize in 2011 “for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.” He first coined the term “dendritic cell” in 1973 while working with Zanvil Cohn. His findings laid the foundations for a new field of immunology. This has enormous therapeutic potential for new vaccination strategies against cancer and infectious diseases. It also holds promise for new therapies for autoimmune disease, allergy, and transplantation reactions.
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