Nature and Consequences of Biological Reductionism for the Immunological Study of Infectious Diseases

Nature and Consequences of Biological Reductionism for the Immunological Study of Infectious Diseases

Evolution has conserved “economic” systems that perform many functions, faster or better, with less. For example, three to five leukocyte types protect from thousands of pathogens. To achieve so much with so little, biological systems combine their limited elements, creating complex structures. Yet,...

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Main Authors: Ariel L. Rivas, Gabriel Leitner, Mark D. Jankowski, Almira L. Hoogesteijn, Michelle J. Iandiorio, Stylianos Chatzipanagiotou, Anastasios Ioannidis, Shlomo E. Blum, Renata Piccinini, Athos Antoniades, Jane C. Fazio, Yiorgos Apidianakis, Jeanne M. Fair, Marc H. V. Van Regenmortel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
Subjects:
methods
host–microbe interactions
reductionism
non-reductionism
pattern recognition
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2017.00612/full

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