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Aimez-vous Brahms? A story capriccioso from the discovery of a cytokine family and its regulators

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Do you delight in Brahms? Do you delight in immunology? Tada Taniguchi recounts the story of Type 1 interferon and its downstream regulators.

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Acknowledgements

I thank J. Vilcek and D. Savitsky for their kind reading of this essay. My particular appreciation goes to my mentor C. Weissmann, from whom I learned so much about science and music (and good jokes), and to the colleagues who spent time in my laboratory through the many facets of the studies described above. I also thank my wife Yoko and my friends, either mentioned herein or not, for their continuous support. Our studies were mostly supported by Kakenhi, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. Finally, I also thank baseball's Hanshin Tigers for their long-standing roller coaster of hope and disappointment, which in addition to music has significantly enriched my life.

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