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Immune

Immune

By: Vincent Racaniello
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A podcast about the body's defenders against disease.Immune is copyright 2020 by MicrobeTV, LLC Biological Sciences Science
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  • Immune Booster 21: Origins of antigen receptors with David Schatz
    Jan 13 2026

    David Schatz talks about his discovery of Rag genes that are critical for antigen receptor development and how that discovery depended on taking high risks and using approaches that everyone thought could never work.

    Host: Cindy Leifer

    Guest: David Schatz


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    • Transfer of recombinase activity in non-lymphoid cells (Cell 1988)
    • Identification of the RAG-1 gene (Cell 1989)
    • Evolution of a recombinase (Semin Immunol 2004)
    • Time stamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

    Music by Tatami.
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