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"I would venture that we understand more of the immune system's complexity than any other system in the body" NO - this is a completely and profoundly FALSE st
by dakrisht 13y ago
"I would venture that we understand more of the immune system's complexity than any other system in the body"
NO - this is a completely and profoundly FALSE statement.
We have learned quite a bit about the immune system in the past decade or so but it is still one of the most mysterious systems in the entire body. The immune system is a black box from the standpoint of most clinicians today. It's an _incredibly_ overwhelming and complex system with dozens of interacting cell types and different molecules spewing into our bloodstream; with each of those cells containing tens of thousands of genes whose activity is dependent upon dozens of factors.
So it is far from being understood. But the research and technology is promising. Immunologists today still perform the same tests they did in the 1960s outside of advanced and experimental immune studies done at the university level.
Your generic explanation of cancers is also incredibly incorrect.
- epistasis 13y agoYou seem to be mistaken, and responding to something I did not write. I did not say that we understand its complexity, I said that we understand more of it's complexity than any other body system. The depth and complexity of immunology as a field is evidence of that. My point was that despite having advanced our knowledge here more than in other parts of molecular biology, we still can't control it. What do see as incorrect in those statements? Also if you don't know about immune involvement in cancers, I'd recommend catching up with the past decade. I pointed out two of the ten Hanahan & Weinberg hallmarks of cancer, so this isn't exactly old news. http://download.bioon.com.cn/upload/201105/22131853_2957.pdf http://download.bioon.com.cn/upload/201105/22131853_2957.pdf