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Comments from audience Andrew Why not just do an immunoprecipitation with the purified antibody to find the tumor antigen? Or why not flow tumor proteins past a bead with the purified antibody on it to extract antigen.

Why not just use microscopy and do a TUNEL assay to measure killing of cells by T cells?

Cosmo Objected to me referring to rapamycin as an immune suppressor since it does so many other things.

Brianne Can't we just figure out what the biological antigen is from the random peptide sequence bioinformatically?

Erica Mentioned that she thought some star fish and lizards can regenerate while humans can't because of the immune system. Brianne knew the name of a Japanese guy on campus that studies the regeneration of limbs.

Xiaofang Mentioned that some researchers have printed out all possible x-mers from the human proteome. She said she'll send me the paper on that.