Clin D'oeil a la Vie: La Grande Aventure HLA

Jean Dausset's fieding that white blood cells play an active role in I'munization won him the Nobel Prize for Medicine and opened a new area of biological investigation, both in pure and in applied research. The HLA system harbours a unique peptide which may be regarded as the essence of the self in opposition to everything else much as the pineal gland was regarded as the seat of the soul by Descartes. The distinction between the self and the non-self is an essential one in I'munology wher...