%0 Journal Article %T Comments on introducing the immune system %A Ahmed E %J Nonlinear Biomedical Physics %D 2009 %I %R 10.1186/1753-4631-3-3 %X It is argued that by studying some design principles of the immune system, e.g. nonlinearity and being a complex adaptive system, one can easily find some explanations of basic properties of the system e.g. memory and tolerance. %U http://www.nonlinearbiomedphys.com/content/3/1/3