The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
You can put a kidney in your body - and somewhere down the line, your body might reject it.
When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a person's natural tendency is to reject that organ.
The production of antibody is not the only, nor I believe the most important, manifestation of immunity, but for reasons both historical and of experimental convenience, antibody is likely to remain the touchstone of immunological theory.
We are sick because our cells are sick.
Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.
After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.
Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people.
What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences.
