Blog #40: Immunology’s role in infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 6: Anti-virals (Lay Version)
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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...
Blog #2: Chronic Inflammation-the basis of "all" diseases?
The word “all” is dangerous territory in scientific discussions. I used it in the book and now, in these blogs. It will undoubtedly raise...
Blog #3: Stress-the cause of "all" immune responses
The concept of stress as the cause of “all” immune responses was a bit of an epiphany as I wrote The Paradox of the Immune System. I...
Blog #4: Bias of the female v. male immune system
There had been a long-standing assumption that females generally vary more in their biological functions due to their complex hormonal...
Blog #5: The innate (aka "natural") immune system & immunity
It’s simple! Immunity is “the ability of an organism (“self”) to resist a particular infection or toxin (“non-self” or antigen) by the...
Blog #6: Evolutionary development of the immune system (Part 1)
Strictly speaking, the evolutionary development of the immune system should be the first topic of discussion, but I postponed it to after...
Blog #7: Evolutionary development of the immune system (Part 2)
Basically, the evolutionary process explains how our innate and adaptive immune system protects us against all foreign,...
Blog #8: Embryology and pregnancy related to the immune system
The womb is a sterile environment and thus no antigens, so the fetal immune system does not need to function. Thus, it is safely...
Blog #9: The adaptive (aka “acquired”) immune system: from friend to foe
We left off in our last blog (#5) with innate immunity converting into adaptive immunity as it advances in the disruption of homeostasis...
Blog #10: Immunogenetics and Immunogenomics
There’s not enough bandwidth in these blog discussions to address genetics in depth. But a quick review of basic genetics might be...
Blog #11: The Human Genome Project (HGP), Precision medicine, and "AIl of Us"
This blog discussion includes a dynamic combination of genetics, immunology, epidemiology, and public health, the foundational elements...
Blog #12: XCI (lyonization)
A process of immense importance in immunology and immunogenomics that encompasses genetics and embryology is the phenomenon of X...
Blog #13:The Microbiome: "Gut-axis-du jour"
It’s a challenge to find an appropriate place to introduce the microbiome in a discussion where you’re trying to develop an evolving...
Blog #14:Chronic inflammation- “Enemy #1” (Part 1: Etiologies and pathogenesis)
We began our discussion of chronic inflammation (CI) way back in Blog #2. You may (or may not) want to relisten or reread that blog...
Blog #15:Chronic inflammation (CI)- “Enemy #1” (Part 2: Pharmacology and pharmacodynamics
We started our last blog (#14) on chronic inflammation (CI) by mentioning its distinguishing characteristics (versus acute inflammation)...
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