An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16062 entries, 14145 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 23, 2024

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Evidence for somatic rearrangement of immunoglobulin genes coding for variable and constant regions.

Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (U.S.A.), 73, 3628-3632, 1976.

Discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity.

In 1987 Tonegawa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity.”



Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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