![]() ![]() Richtel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author of the acclaimed A Deadly Wandering, enthusiastically and compassionately demystifies the science and the story of one of the most intricate and misunderstood landscapes of human biology - and the most rapidly changing, perhaps most crucial branch of medical research. “Like police in a time of martial law, the immune system seeks out threats and keeps them from doing mortal harm, ably discerning up to a billion different alien hazards, even ones not yet discovered by science.” ![]() That titular defense “pits our internal forces against evil disease by using powerful cells capable of surveillance and spying, surgical strikes and nuclear attacks,” Richtel writes. In Matt Richtel’s compelling new book, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives, the war metaphor looms large. ![]()
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