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Comments on introducing the immune system

E Ahmed email

Mathematics department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura 35516, Egypt

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Nonlinear Biomedical Physics 2009, 3:3doi:10.1186/1753-4631-3-3

Published: 11 June 2009

Abstract

It is argued that by studying some design principles of the immune system, e.g. nonlinearity and being a complex adaptive system, one can easily find some explanations of basic properties of the system e.g. memory and tolerance.


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