An elegant defense: the extraordinary new science of the immune system : a tale in four lives

Part I. Lives in the balance. The ties that bind

Jason

Bob

Linda and Merredith

Part II. The immune system and the festival of life. The bird, dog, starfish, and magic bullet

The festival

Festival crashers

The mystery organ

The B-word

T cells and B cells

Vaccines

The infinity machine

Transplant

The immune system's fingerprint

Inflammation

Fever

Flash Gordon

The harmonious way

Three wise men and a monoclonal antibody

A second immune system

Part III. Bob. Sex machine

GRID

The phone call

CD4 and CD8

Magic

The prime

Part IV. Linda and Merredith. Linda

The wolf

Invisible evidence

Best of both worlds (sort of)

Merredith

Should you pick your nose?

Microbiome

Stress

Sleep

Part V. Jason. 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

Part VI. Homecoming. Bob

Linda

Jan and Ron

Jason down the white tunnel

Jason rises

Apollo 11

Home

Jason's way

The meanings of life

The meaning of Jason.

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.