A select group of highly renowned scientists - among themfour Nobel Prize Winners - have been asked to summarizesignificant developments of their ownrecent research in thelife sciences at a workshop organized on the occasionof theopening of the new Paul-Ehrlich-Institut in Langen nearFrankfurt/ Main. They do this in a comparative fashionevaluating similar achievements in adjacent fields. Theirintellectual state-of-the-art analysis and fascinatingoutlook on future perspectives provides exciting andstimulating reading.The authors address areas in virology, immunology, oncologyand evolution. Intelligent design of vaccines and otherimmunologial drugs, virus evolution and viruses as nature'sengineers, pathology of chronic autoimmune and centralnervous system diseases and the biology of mammary cancerbelong to the topics discussed. A book easy to read forscientists, doctors and students interested in rapidlydeveloping fields in the life sciences.

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.