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B Cell Evolution

Your Life Depends on Immune Cells Doing the 'Impossible': Purposeful, Targeted DNA Engineering (Part 2)

James A. Shapiro | Posted 06.03.2012 | Science
Read More: Jerry Coyne, Lymphocytes, Natural Genetic Engineering, Somatic Hypermutation, Activated B Cell, Evolution, B Cell Evolution, Immune System, Antibodies, Class Switch Recombination, Biology, Science News
James A. Shapiro

This posting will discuss how further targeted natural genetic engineering refines antibody specificity and directs antibodies to the right place in your body to deal with each infection.

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Purposeful, Targeted Genetic Engineering in Immune System Evolution

James A. Shapiro | Posted 04.07.2012 | Science
Read More: Terminal Transferase, Primary Immune Response, Combinatorial Diversity, Antibody Diversity, Natural Genetic Engineering, Activated B Cell, Purposeful Evolution, B Cell Evolution, Junctional Diversity, Adaptive Immune System, Read-Write Genome, Biology, Science News
James A. Shapiro

Your life depends on purposeful, targeted changes to cellular DNA. Although conventional thinking says directed DNA changes are impossible, the truth is that you could not survive without them.

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