Reposted by Josh Waterfall
Hope you enjoy this short piece, which came out yesterday. Some thoughts I’ve been musing on for a while about why adaptive immunity evolved. Read it for free at rdcu.be/fAO5P
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Why adaptive immunity?
Nature Reviews Immunology - Adaptive immunity is indispensable to vertebrates, yet most living organisms defend themselves perfectly well without it. Here, I ask why somatically diversified antigen...