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On 31st March 1917, Emil von Behring passed away. Why is this event so important for immunologists a century later?
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Kaufmann, S. Emil von Behring: translational medicine at the dawn of immunology. Nat Rev Immunol 17, 341–343 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nri.2017.37
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