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When an animal is infected, either naturally or by experimental injection, with a bacterium, virus, or other foreign body, the animal recognises this as an invader and acts in such a way as to remove or destroy it.

~Cesar Milstein

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My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the daughter of a poor immigrant family.

~Cesar Milstein

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I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.

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What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences.

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My thesis was on kinetics studies with the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase. When that was finished, I was granted a British Council Fellowship to work under the supervision of Malcolm Dixon.

~Cesar Milstein

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As we returned to Argentina, I started seriously to work towards a doctoral degree under the direction of Professor Stoppani, the Professor of Biochemistry at the Medical School.

~Cesar Milstein

Topics: Argentina Biochemistry Degree Direction Medical Medical School Professor Returned School Seriously Started Towards Work

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Back in 1962, when I had by accident become the supervisor of Roberto Celis in Argentina, it occurred to me that antibody diversity might arise from the joining by disulphide bridges of a variety of small polypeptides in combinatorial patterns.

~Cesar Milstein

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The study of the amino acid sequence around the disulphide bonds of the immunoglobulins was my own short-cut to the understanding of antibody diversity.

~Cesar Milstein

Topics: Acid Amino Around Bonds Diversity My Own Own Sequence Study Understanding

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Biography

Nationality: Argentinian

Type: Scientist

Born: October 8th, 1927

Died: March 24th, 2002

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