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| | Landsteiner, Karl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | In 1927 Landsteiner found that, in addition to antigens A and B, human blood cells contain one or other or both of two heritable antigens, M and N. These are of no importance in transfusions, because human serum does not contain the corresponding antibodies, but they are of value in resolving paternity disputes. |
 | | Landsteiner was born and educated in Vienna, and also studied at other universities in Europe. |
 | | He worked at the Vienna Pathology Laboratory 1898-1908, became professor at a Vienna hospital, and left Austria 1919 for the Netherlands, moving 1922 to the USA and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York. |
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