Immunology

Long-Standing Puzzle of Immune System is Solved by UCSF Researchers

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, March 2nd, 1998

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have solved a decades-long scientific puzzle about how the body's immune system works to combat illness.

In a study also having implications for better understanding cancer, the researchers found that the immune system is able to target virtually any unwanted microscopic invader within the body by subverting the function of an enzyme that normally is used to repair mistakes - called mutations - in the genetic material, DNA.

Immunology researchers have long suspected that immune cells take advantage of mutations that arise in genes to generate greater diversity in the genes that encode...

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