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The Eurofighter and infections
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It is said that no one can fly the Eurofighter; it is designed to be unstable and to have control surfaces managed by computer. That way it is more manoeuvrable and quicker to respond to challenge. To some extent, it's the same with B-cells.
Despite realizing that genetic change happens much faster than we thought (around 5% of our genome is composed of segmental duplications that have arisen in the last 35 million years),1 we