Elegant defense : the extraordinary new science of the immune system : a tale in four lives
by Richtel, Matt (Author)
Summary
"A groundbreaking narrative exploration of the human immune system--the key to human health and longevity--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and acclaimed author of A Deadly Wandering"-- Full description
- Jason
- Jason and me
- Bob
- Linda and Merredith
- The bird, dog, starfish, and magic bullet
- The festival
- Festival crashers
- T-cells and B-cells
- The mystery organ
- The B-word
- Vaccines
- The infinity machine
- Transplant
- The immune system's fingerprint
- Inflammation
- Fever
- Flash Gordon
- Dr. Fauci names a lab
- Three wise men and a monoclonal antibody
- A second immune system
- Sex machine
- Grid
- The phone call
- CD-4 and CD-8
- Magic
- The prime
- Linda
- The wolf
- Invisible evidence
- Best of both worlds (sort of)
- Merredith
- Should you pick your nose?
- Microbiome
- Stress
- Sleep
- A word about cancer
- Laughter and tears
- The Lazarus mouse
- Wound healing
- Programmed death
- The breakthrough
- Jason races time
- Shepherd of death
- Trials
- personal and clinical
- The other shoe
- Bob
- Linda
- Jan and Ron
- Jason down the white tunnel
- Jason rises
- Apollo 13
- Home
- Jason's way
- The meaning(s) of life
- The meaning of Jason.