Susumu Tonegawa receives the medicine prize for explaining how the immune system generates antibody diversity. He demonstrated that antibody genes are rearranged in developing immune cells, allowing a limited set of inherited DNA segments to produce numerous distinct antibodies.
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Susumu Tonegawa
Nobel Prize history for Susumu Tonegawa based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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