These strings, the equivalent of naturally occurring molecules in a body, are compared to a pool of randomly generated 49-bit strings called detectors, the equivalent of the randomly generated lymphocytes.
As he reports in the latest issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, lymphocytes from the depressed women responded much less than those from the normal women when exposed to agents that induce proliferation.
Lymphomas are cancers of the lymphatic system, a network of vessels which form part of the body's immune system, and carry other infection-fighting cells called "lymphocytes", as well as draining dead cells away from the tissues.