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The 50th Midwinter Conference of Immunologists at Asilomar

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For 50 years, immunologists have been meeting each winter in California to discuss new findings and theories in immunology. A recurring theme this year was the continuous conversation between the innate and adaptive arms of the immune system. To mark the 50th anniversary of this meeting, some of the speakers took a look back half a century to see how far immunologists have come.

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