Layperson Version Blog Posts

Blog #1: Introduction (Lay Version)

Blog #2: Chronic Inflammation (CI): It's what it's all about (Lay Version)

Blog #3: Stress: The kind we have in us and the kind outside of us (Lay Version)

Blog #4: "Women are from Venus and men are from Mars" (Lay Version)

Blog #5: The innate immune system (The start of an amazing journey) (Lay Version)

Blog #6: The immune system millions of years ago (Part 1) (Lay Version)

Blog #7: The immune system millions of years ago (Part 2) (Lay Version)

Blog #8: "It's an immune system!" Embryology and pregnancy (Lay Version)

Blog #9: The adaptive immune system: (When a friend turns on us) (Lay Version)

Blog #10: Immunogenetics and Immunogenomics (What makes us who we are?) (Lay Version)

Blog #11: The Human Genome Project (HGP), Precision medicine, and "AIl of Us" (Lay Version)

Blog #12: XCI (lyonization) (Lay Version)

Blog #13:The Microbiome: "Gut-axis-du jour" (Lay Version)

Blog #14:Chronic inflammation (CI)- “Enemy #1” (Part 1: Etiologies and pathogenesis) (Lay Version)

Blog #15:Chronic inflammation “Enemy #1” (Part 2: Pharmacology and pharmacodynamics) (Lay Version)

Blog #16:Chronic inflammation (CI)- “Enemy #1” (Part 3: A multisystem pathology) (Lay Version)

Blog #17: Neuroimmunology (Lay Version)

Blog #18:Autoimmune disease (Part 1) – Causes (Lay Version)

Blog #19: Autoimmune disease (Part 2)- Female bias) (Lay Version)

Blog #20: Autoimmune disease (Part 3)- Clinical considerations) (Lay Version)

Blog #21: Immunotherapeutics (Monoclonal antibodies, biosimilars and biologics) (Lay Version)

Blog #22: Immunotherapeutic procedures (PART 1: Stem cell transplantation therapy) (Lay Version)

Blog #23: Immunotherapeutic procedures (Part 2: Homograph transplantation) (Lay Version)

Blog #24: Immunotherapeutic procedures (Part 3: Genetic engineering/modifications) (Lay Version)

Blog #25: Immunotherapeutic procedures (Part 4: CAR-T & CAAR-T cell therapy) (Lay Version)

Blog #26: Immunotherapeutic procedures (Part 5: CRISPR-Cas9 therapy) (Lay Version)

Blog #27: Cancer, Part 1: Immunology’s cruelest enemy and greatest challenge (Lay Version)

Blog #28: Cancer, Part 2: What is it, really? (Lay Version)

Blog #29: Cancer, Part 3: Microbiome, XCI and microRNA: We are beginning to find out (Lay Version)

Blog #30: Cancer, Part 4: Getting a handle on it early (Lay Version)

Blog #31: Cancer treatment, Part 1: Attacking from the outside and from the inside (Lay Version)

Blog #32: Cancer treatment, Part 2: Using our immune system to fight the fight (Lay Version)

Blog #33: Cancer treatment, Part 3: When our own immune system clones its way to care (Lay Version)

Blog #34: Cancer treatment, Part 4: Combining our discoveries, our greatest discovery (Lay Version)

Blog #35: Infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 1: Our immune system under attack (Lay Version)

Blog #36: Infectious disease and COVID-19,Part 2: Using our own genetics to fight back (Lay Version)

Blog #37: Immunology’s role in infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 3: Clinical (Lay Version)

Blog #38: Immunology’s role in infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 4: Therapy (Lay Version)

Blog #39: Immunology’s role in infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 5: Therapy cont. (Lay Version)

Blog #40: Immunology’s role in infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 6: Anti-virals (Lay Version)

Blog #41: Immunology’s role in infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 7: Vaccines (Lay Version)

Blog #42: Immunology’s role in infectious disease and COVID-19, Part 8: Vaccination (Lay Version)

Blog #43: Immunology’s role in Immunoinformatics controlling the beast (Lay Version)

Blog #44: Immunology’s role in public health considerations and recommendations (Saving ourselves)