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What Jane Jacobs has taught me about neuroimmunology

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In acknowledgment of Women’s History Month, I have drawn upon timeless concepts from Jane Jacobs’ seminal 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities1 to describe emerging ideas in neuroimmunology and how we may collectively move the field forward.

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Gommerman, J.L. What Jane Jacobs has taught me about neuroimmunology. Nat Immunol 25, 381 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-024-01764-6

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