PDF/ePub An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives Writen By Matt Richtel

An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

By : Matt Richtel

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Book Synopsis :

National BestsellerA grand tour of the human immune system and the secrets of health, by the Pulitzer Prize?winning New York Times journalistA terminal cancer patient rises from the grave. A medical marvel defies HIV. Two women with autoimmunity discover their own bodies have turned against them. Matt Richtel's An Elegant Defense uniquely entwines these intimate stories with science?s centuries-long quest to unlock the mysteries of sickness and health, and illuminates the immune system as never before.The immune system is our body?s essential defense network, a guardian vigilantly fighting illness, healing wounds, maintaining order and balance, and keeping us alive. Its legion of microscopic foot soldiers?from T cells to ?natural killers??patrols our body, linked by a nearly instantaneous communications grid. It has been honed by evolution over millennia to face an almost infinite array of threats.For all its astonishing complexity, however, the immune system can be easily

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Author : Matt Richtel

Pages : 448 pages

Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0062698494

ISBN-13 : 9780062698490

 

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