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Elegant defense : the extraordinary new science of the immune system : a tale in four lives / Matt Richtel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richtel, Matt, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immune system--Popular works.
- Immune system.
- Immunology--Popular works.
- Immunology.
- Immunologic diseases--Patients.
- Immunologic diseases.
- Patients.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : William Morrow, [2019]
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780062698537
- 0062698532
- 9780062698490
- 0062698494
- OCLC:
- 1047637616
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