Blog #1: Introduction (Lay Version)
The only thing this blog will be selling is knowledge and hopefully, a better understanding of how our immune system works, “for better...
Blog #2: Chronic Inflammation (CI): It's what it's all about (Lay Version)
As a general rule, scientists avoid the word “all”. All implies no exceptions; all implies we’re certain; all implies things we couldn’t...
Blog #3: Stress: The kind we have in us and the kind outside of us (Lay Version)
When I did the research for my book, The Paradox of the Immune System, I began to realize that “stress” disrupts the normal state of our...
Blog #4: "Women are from Venus and men are from Mars" (Lay Version)
Among the many paradoxes of the human immune system that we will be presenting throughout this blog and in its companion book, "The...
Blog #5: The innate immune system (The start of an amazing journey) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) It’s...
Blog #6: The immune system millions of years ago (Part 1) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) Strictly...
Blog #7: The immune system millions of years ago (Part 2) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) We spoke...
Blog #8: "It's an immune system!" Embryology and pregnancy (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) Mother’s...
Blog #9: The adaptive immune system: (When a friend turns on us) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) Back in...
Blog #10: Immunogenetics and Immunogenomics (What makes us who we are?) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) There’s...
Blog #11: The Human Genome Project (HGP), Precision medicine, and "AIl of Us" (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) This...
Blog #12: XCI (lyonization) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) A...
Blog #13:The Microbiome: "Gut-axis-du jour" (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) It’s a...
Blog #14:Chronic inflammation (CI)- “Enemy #1” (Part 1: Etiologies and pathogenesis) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) We began...
Blog #15:Chronic inflammation “Enemy #1” (Part 2: Pharmacology and pharmacodynamics) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) We...
Blog #16:Chronic inflammation (CI)- “Enemy #1” (Part 3: A multisystem pathology) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) Other...
Blog #17: Neuroimmunology (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) Buckle...
Blog #18:Autoimmune disease (Part 1) – Causes (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) When,...
Blog #19: Autoimmune disease (Part 2)- Female bias) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) It’s...
Blog #20: Autoimmune disease (Part 3)- Clinical considerations) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) When...
Blog #21: Immunotherapeutics (Monoclonal antibodies, biosimilars and biologics) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) Among...
Blog #22: Immunotherapeutic procedures (PART 1: Stem cell transplantation therapy) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) A...
Blog #23: Immunotherapeutic procedures (Part 2: Homograph transplantation) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) A branch...
Blog #24: Immunotherapeutic procedures (Part 3: Genetic engineering/modifications) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) The use...
Blog #25: Immunotherapeutic procedures (Part 4: CAR-T & CAAR-T cell therapy) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) The word...
Blog #26: Immunotherapeutic procedures (Part 5: CRISPR-Cas9 therapy) (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) One of...
Blog #27: Cancer, Part 1: Immunology’s cruelest enemy and greatest challenge (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) You have...
Blog #28: Cancer, Part 2: What is it, really? (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs)...
Blog #29: Cancer, Part 3: Microbiome, XCI and microRNA: We are beginning to find out (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) As...
Blog #30: Cancer, Part 4: Getting a handle on it early (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) The...
Blog #31: Cancer treatment, Part 1: Attacking from the outside and from the inside (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs)...
Blog #32: Cancer treatment, Part 2: Using our immune system to fight the fight (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) In a...
Blog #33: Cancer treatment, Part 3: When our own immune system clones its way to care (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) Way back...
Blog #34: Cancer treatment, Part 4: Combining our discoveries, our greatest discovery (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) Back in...
Blog #35: Infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 1: Our immune system under attack (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) Most...
Blog #36: Infectious disease and COVID-19,Part 2: Using our own genetics to fight back (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) As we...
Blog #37: Immunology’s role in infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 3: Clinical (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) Reported...
Blog #38: Immunology’s role in infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 4: Therapy (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) Care for...
Blog #39: Immunology’s role in infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 5: Therapy cont. (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) This is...
Blog #40: Immunology’s role in infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 6: Anti-virals (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs)...
Blog #41: Immunology’s role in infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 7: Vaccines (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) By...
Blog #42: Immunology’s role in infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 8: Vaccination (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs)...
Blog #43: Immunology’s role in Immunoinformatics controlling the beast (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) The...
Blog #44: Immunology’s role in public health considerations and recommendations (Saving ourselves)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) If you...
Blog #45: Epilogue ("It Takes a Village!") (Lay Version)
(Selected Tables and Figures referenced, but not present in this blog can be found in their corresponding Science Version blogs) So, just...