Painting
- ID-nummer
- 2013.017.001
- Titel
- Painting
- Objektkategori
- Konst
- Publik beskrivning
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This painting is an artistic representation of a diagram in a ground-breaking scholarly article by Susumu Tonegawa.
To fight all viruses, bacteria and other damaging substances that we can be exposed to, we need the capacity to produce enormous amounts of different antibodies. The production of antibodies is controlled by genes, but the number of genes is much smaller than the number of antibodies that can be produced. In 1976, Tonegawa showed how this was possible. The genetic material in B cells, a type of white blood cell, can move and form new combinations, while B cells can convert to produce antibodies.
Susumu Tonegawa donated the painting to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2013. - Pristagare
- Susumu Tonegawa
Part of Painting