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The glittering prizes

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The Nobel Prizes will be announced at the beginning of October. Is there a possibility that immunology might make the list?

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  1. Peter C. Doherty is in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and the Department of Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.,

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