Cover image for Immune : how your body defends and protects you / Catherine Carver.
Title:
Immune : how your body defends and protects you / Catherine Carver.

How your body defends and protects you
ISBN:
9781472915115
1472915119
Publication Info:
London :
Description:
304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series:
Bloomsbury sigma series.
Summary:
"Immune explores the incredible arsenal that lives within us - how it knows what to attack and what to defend, and how it kills everything from the common cold virus to plague bacteria. We see what happens when the immune system turns on us, and how life is impossible without its protection. We learn how diseases try to evade the immune system and exploit its vulnerabilities, and we discover how scientists are designing new drugs to harness the power of the system to fight disease. Do transplants ever reject their new bodies? What is pus? How can your body make more antibodies than there are stars in our galaxy? Why is cancer so hard for our immune system to fight? Why do flu outbreaks cause a spike in sleep disorders? Can we smell someone else's immune system, and does that help us subconsciously decide who we fall in love with? In this book, Catherine Carver answers all of these compelling questions, and many more besides." --Publisher description.
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