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Why Is Inflammation a Dangerous Necessity?

The Joy of Why

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Adaptive Immune Cells That Recognize Shapes

As a mathematician, i always want to think about shapes. And of course, this is one of the most remarkable thing that you can have some virus or bacterium or some other pathagin that your body has never seen before. Is it that something that has the right shape and can somehow stick or bind on to this nasty bug pathagin? Because it can stick, it can start to fight it better than something else, which doesn't bind well?"

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