Managing failure: Sir Peter Brian Medawar’s transplantation research
Sir Peter Medawar experimentally demonstrated immunological tolerance through his tissue transplantation experiment in the early and mid-1950s. He made a central contribution to modern biomedicine by showing that genetically distinct cells introduced into a body during its foetal phase could not onl...
Main Author: | Park, Hyung Wook |
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Other Authors: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
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2018
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87084 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44262 |
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