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To affinity and beyond

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Tracking B cells in germinal centres — hotspots of B-cell proliferation and mutation during an immune response — reveals that those cells presenting the most antigen on their surface are programmed to dominate. See Letter p.637

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Figure 1: Selection in the germinal centre.

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