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Jedd Wolchok describes a 1996 study by Alan Houghton and colleagues that showed how immune tolerance to self antigens on cancer cells could be overcome.
Shane Crotty discusses a 2013 study by Barton Haynes and colleagues that beautifully illustrates the extreme capacity of a B cell response to evolve in real time to a viral infection.