Edited by
Maurizio Zanetti, Stephen P. Schoenberger

2010

ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY Volume 684

Immunological memory has fascinated microbiologists and immunologists for decades as one of the new frontiers to conquer to better understand the response to pathogens, cancer and vaccination. Over the past decade, attention has turned to the intrinsic properties of the memory T cells themselves, as it has become clear that the eradication of both infected cells and tumors requires T cells.