A Raucous Festival: On Matt Richtel’s “An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives”

CLEANLINESS IS BAD. Most of the cells in your body are not yours. Given half a chance your body will try to kill you. In An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives, Matt Richtel explains at length, and with verve, how today’s fastest changing and most important branch of […]

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