By Jonathan M. Austyn and Kathryn J. Wood. 735 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1994. $42.50. ISBN 0-19-854297-6.
In 1933 the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, NewYork, became the site of an annual meeting on a topic of interestin biology. The subject of the 1966 meeting was the geneticcode; the following year's meeting, devoted to antibodies, attemptedto build on the previous symposium by bringing the preceptsof molecular biology to immunology. A great deal had been learnedabout the structure of immunoglobulins, thanks to new methodsfor sequencing proteins, but in 1967 the genetic basis of antibodydiversity remained as mysterious as ever. Indeed, it was notuntil 1976, almost a decade . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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