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Web Focus: 50th Anniversary of Clonal Selection Theory
Historical Discussions
Top of pageThe golden anniversary of Burnet's clonal selection theory
Philip D Hodgkin
Immunol Cell Biol 86: 15; doi:10.1038/sj.icb.7100145
The evolution of clinical immunology and allergy in Australia
Antony Basten
Immunol Cell Biol 86: 16-21; advance online publication, November 27, 2007; doi:10.1038/sj.icb.7100138
Frank Macfarlane Burnet as I Knew Him
Frank Fenner
Immunol Cell Biol 86: 22-23; doi:10.1038/sj.icb.7100130
Antigen-specific clone selection in vivo
Jacques FAP Miller
Immunol Cell Biol 86: 24-25; advance online publication, November 13, 2007; doi:10.1038/sj.icb.7100137
Selection, memory and selective memories: T cells, B cells and Sir Mac 1968
Graham F Mitchell
Immunol Cell Biol 86: 26-30; advance online publication, November 27, 2007; doi:10.1038/sj.icb.7100136
The clonal selection theory: 50 years since the revolution -
Philip D Hodgkin, William R Heath & Alan G Baxter
Nature Immunology 8: 1019-26; (2007); doi:10.1038/ni1007-1019
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This historical commentary includes the republication of Burnet's clonal selection paper from the Australian Journal of Science.
Reflections on the clonal-selection theory -
Melvin Cohn, N Av Mitchison, William E Paul, Arthur M Silverstein, David W Talmage & Martin Weigert
Nature Reviews Immunology 7: 823-30; (2007); doi:10.1038/nri2177
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One cell–one antibody: prelude and aftermath -
G J V Nossal
Nature Immunology 8: 1015-1017; (2007); doi:10.1038/ni1007-1015
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Frank MacFarlane Burnet: two personal views -
Frank Fenner & Gordon Ada
Nature Immunology 8: 111-113; (2007); doi:10.1038/ni0207-111
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Mentors and manipulation -
G J V Nossal
Nature 429: 811; (2004); doi:10.1038/429811a
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