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Before East-West talks on arms control resume, there is a strong case for an examination of what the two sides should be aiming at — even for an agreement on the subject.
This week's Nobel prize comes less than 10 years after monoclonal antibodies, already produced commercially as diagnostic reagents. But in that decade, immunology has been transformed.