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The European Commission's heart may be in the right place in the support of science and technology, but it must learn patience. Europe will be there a century from now.
THE penetration of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) with cloned DNA probes has opened up a new approach to an old evolutionary problem — how to account for the unparalleled polymorphism of the cell-surface antigens it encodes. This spring, representatives of the main laboratories involved met in Oxford* to compare notes, and to discuss their strategies for research on the functions of the MHC products.
