The new approach to immunology
FM Burnet - New England Journal of Medicine, 1961 - Mass Medical Soc
FM Burnet
New England Journal of Medicine, 1961•Mass Medical SocFEW fields within the conventional ambit of the biologic sciences are more actively popular
at the present time than immunology. Rather suddenly the old approach to immunity as an
aspect of the study of infectious disease, with its almost exclusive concentration on antibody
at the experimental level, has been replaced by a more sophisticated approach. In 1949
Fenner and I1 made the first systematic attempt to look at the problem, recognized by Ehrlich
but more or less neglected subsequently, of the implications of the nonantigenicity of body …
at the present time than immunology. Rather suddenly the old approach to immunity as an
aspect of the study of infectious disease, with its almost exclusive concentration on antibody
at the experimental level, has been replaced by a more sophisticated approach. In 1949
Fenner and I1 made the first systematic attempt to look at the problem, recognized by Ehrlich
but more or less neglected subsequently, of the implications of the nonantigenicity of body …
FEW fields within the conventional ambit of the biologic sciences are more actively popular at the present time than immunology. Rather suddenly the old approach to immunity as an aspect of the study of infectious disease, with its almost exclusive concentration on antibody at the experimental level, has been replaced by a more sophisticated approach.
In 1949 Fenner and I1 made the first systematic attempt to look at the problem, recognized by Ehrlich but more or less neglected subsequently, of the implications of the nonantigenicity of body components. We pointed out that somehow the ability of cells within the body . . .
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