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Breaking the seal

The diversity of the receptors on our immune cells that recognize 'foreign' material is ensured by combining a set of gene segments to form the final receptor genes. A crucial player in that process has now been found.

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Figure 1: Genetic cutting and pasting in immune cells.

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