The adaptive immune system has evolved a brute force strategy to combat the enormous numbers of pathogens we encounter on a daily basis. Billions of distinct Ag receptors (AgRs) are generated during our lifetime, each with a unique spectrum of binding specificities, and each is clonally distributed
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