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Immunology for Aliens
It is intriguing to write for, and about, a population of researchers
who are sometimes called ‘aliens’ by the classic immunologists.
Nobody knows from where they came, but the point in time
of their appearance can be traced to around the last decades
of the twentieth century. They are still around, and some have
proliferated. They are also called modellers, but they are fastidious
about what they like to model. As it happened, most of these
modellers developed their tools and formed their models aiming
to understand aspects and parts of the immune response. They
were eager to learn all they could about how immunity worked,
and their immunologist friends were happy to tell them what
they knew and what they believed. ...