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A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system?the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind book, entwining leading-edge scientific discovery with the intimate stories of four individual lives, by the Pulitzer Prize?winning New York Times journalist.A terminal cancer patient rises from the grave. A medical marvel defies HIV. Two women with autoimmunity discover their own bodies have turned against them. Matt Richtel's An Elegant Defense uniquely entwines these intimate stories with science?s centuries-long quest to unlock the mysteries of sickness and health, and illuminates the immune system as never before.The immune system is our body?s essential defense network, a guardian vigilantly fighting illness, healing wounds, maintaining order and balance, and keeping us alive. Its legion of microscopic foot soldiers?from T cells to ?natural killers??patrols our body, linked by a nearly instantaneous communications grid.
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