Immune networks: getting on to the real thing.

After some ten years of faltering development, the network approach in immunology is finally heading toward steady ground. At a recent international workshop (*), experimentalists and theoreticians discussed some of the latest developments, including an impressive array of novel results and applications to fundamental properties of biological immune networks: connectivity, patterns of dynamic activity, ontogenesis, and tolerance.

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