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The immune system constantly creates genes on the fly that are specific to the things that show up in the body. It's amazing.

If we think of the immune system as a machine, then we are far from even knowing all of its parts.

The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.

The immune system's goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

We can boost our immune systems by strengthening our social networks and decreasing stress.

It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.

Sometimes your immune system gets a little heated, and you're more susceptible to getting some illnesses that way.

Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.