Lamprey immunity is far from primitive

Lamprey immunity is far from primitive.

The adaptive immune systems of vertebrates provide remarkable examples of evolutionary innovation. This is most evident in the unusual mechanisms that jawed vertebrates have invented to create and deploy T-cell receptor and Ig diversity. In a series of papers published over the past decade (detailed below), the variable lymphocyte receptors of the jawless vertebrates (VLRs) (Fig. 1A) have emerg...

Bosonsampling is far from uniform

BosonSampling, which we proposed three years ago, is a scheme for using linear-optical networks to solve sampling problems that appear to be intractable for a classical computer. In a recent manuscript, Gogolin et al. claimed that even an ideal BosonSampling device’s output would be “operationally indistinguishable” from a uniform random outcome, at least “without detailed a priori knowledge”; ...

Bosonsampling Is Far from Uniform Citation

BosonSampling, which we proposed three years ago, is a scheme for using linear-optical networks to solve sampling problems that appear to be intractable for a classical computer. In a recent manuscript, Gogolin et al. claimed that even an ideal BosonSampling device’s output would be “operationally indistinguishable” from a uniform random outcome, at least “without detailed a priori knowledge”; ...

Melioidosis: It is not Far from here

In the modern world, with developed traveling facilities, tourism is an important factor in emerging new infectious diseases in non-endemic areas. Therefore, the epidemiology of infections is a considerable issue for physicians and should be taken into account. We report a case of melioidosis in a 69-year-old Iranian man during his trip to Southeast Asia. On admission, he was febrile with tachy...

Placebo is far from benign: it is disease-mongering.