Main description:

A select group of highly renowned scientists - among them
four Nobel Prize Winners - have been asked to summarize
significant developments of their ownrecent research in the
life sciences at a workshop organized on the occasionof the
opening of the new Paul-Ehrlich-Institut in Langen near
Frankfurt/ Main. They do this in a comparative fashion
evaluating similar achievements in adjacent fields. Their
intellectual state-of-the-art analysis and fascinating
outlook on future perspectives provides exciting and
stimulating reading.
The authors address areas in virology, immunology, oncology
and evolution. Intelligent design of vaccines and other
immunologial drugs, virus evolution and viruses as nature's
engineers, pathology of chronic autoimmune and central
nervous system diseases and the biology of mammary cancer
belong to the topics discussed. A book easy to read for
scientists, doctors and students interested in rapidly
developing fields in the life sciences.

Contents:

Paul Ehrlich in His Time: A Historian's View.- The Dawn of Immunology: The Era of Paul Ehrlich.- Soluble Lymphocyte Receptors.- Structure and Function of Antigen-Receptor Complexes on Murine B Lymphocytes.- The Biology of Mammary Cancer.- Virus Quasispecies.- Retroviruses: Nature's Genetic Engineers.- Retroviruses and Autoimmunity.- Genetic Control of De Novo Conversion to Infectious Amyloids of Host Precursor Proteins: KuruKuru - CJD - Scrapie.- How Vaccines Work: Different Patterns for Different Diseases.- The Future of Immunological Drugs.- Vaccines in Perspective: Human Hepatitis B Vaccines, the First Subunit and Recombinant Viral Vaccines.- Immunopathogenesis of HIV/SIV Infections: Consequences for the Development of AIDS Vaccines.