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With whom did Peter work to establish the principle of acquired immunological tolerance?

  • Leslie Brent and Rupert E. Billingham

  • Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins

  • David Baltimore and Albert Lasker

  • Francis Crick and James Watson

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Peter Medawar worked with Leslie Brent and Rupert E. Billingham to establish the principle of acquired immunological tolerance. This principle states that the immune system can be trained to tolerate an antigen that would otherwise be rejected. Medawar, Brent, and Billingham conducted a series of experiments in which they transplanted skin grafts between two different strains of mice.
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