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Negative feedback for B cells

The discovery of a protein that regulates the production of antibody-generating B cells has implications for our understanding of how cancers of the immune system develop — and how they might be treated.

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Staudt, L. Negative feedback for B cells. Nature 431, 919–920 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/431919a

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