Collective Dynamics in the Immune System Response
- 1 December 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 79 (22) , 4493-4496
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.4493
Abstract
It is suggested that the process by which the immune system learns how to recognize foreign invaders proceeds through a cascade of “metastable states” behaving like collective modes in a bit-matching space.Keywords
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