The way our immune system fights off malicious bacteria and viruses, finds cancer growths and even can re-wire our brains is pure poetry to John Trowsdale, emeritus professor of immunology at the University of Cambridge. He's spent 50 years studying how the system that is essential for defense against marauding microbes can also turn against our own tissues with catastrophic consequences.
His new book offers insights into our complex immune system, what we can do to keep it healthy, and the creative new ways researchers are harnessing the destructive power of our own bodies to combat disease like cancer and dementia. His book is called, What the Body Knows: A Guide to the New Science of Our Immune System.
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