Immune Booster 21: Origins of antigen receptors with David Schatz

David Schatz talks about his discovery of Rag genes that are critical for antigen receptor development and how that discovery depended on taking high risks and using approaches that everyone thought could never work.

Host: Cindy Leifer

Guest: David Schatz

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• Transfer of recombinase activity in non-lymphoid cells (Cell 1988)
• Identification of the RAG-1 gene (Cell 1989)
• Evolution of a recombinase (Semin Immunol 2004)
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