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...basic research in how the body defends itself against external agents and maintains its internal wellbeing. The prediction proved wrong-but only by twelve months. Last week Sweden's Karolinska Institute announced that the 1980 award, worth $212,000, will be shared by three pioneering immunologists: Jean Dausset of France and two Americans, George Snell and Baruj Benacerraf...
...such a complex exist in humans? Dausset, 63, of the Saint-Louis Hospital of the University of Paris, found that it did. Comparing the white blood cells (leukocytes) of patients undergoing transfusions with those from blood donors, Dausset identified distinct antigens on cell surfaces. Then he located the controlling genes. Because they were first found in white blood cells, the surface proteins are called human leukocyte antigens (HLA), though they exist in all tissues. Over 40 antigens have been identified...
...members of the Mission besides M. Caillaux as finally picked were ten: Senators Henry Berenger, Louis Dausset, M. Chapsal, Paul Dupuy* Deputies Lucien Lamoreux, Vincent Auriol, Maurice Bokanowski, Pierre de Chambrun† bankers Joseph Simon and Moreau-Neyret...