The Invisible Guardian

For many people who started to study immunology, these sciences were often regarded as confusing and boring, but not for the author of this book, molecular biologist Maria Kondratova, who is doing her best to show that this field of knowledge is in fact as fascinating and unpredictable as a good cop movie: chases, explosions and detecting of the criminals. Using images and metaphors of the most dynamic genre, without disregarding scientific accuracy, the author turns the story of body defences into a cliff hanger.

 

Readers will be updated on body defences operating which look like a thrilling action film, and immunology (sciences concerned with all aspects of the immune system) which is as fascinating as criminology (the scientific study of crime).

The author aims to introduce the main protagonists and anti-heroes of immune reactions to his readers: immune cells on one hand and viruses, bacteria, parasites on another hand.

Readers will learn how and why our immune system fights (and sometimes fails) with coronavirus infection, cancer, acute respiratory viral infection, autoimmune diseases and other common and rare diseases.

 

Readers will discover, how the immune system works and why it can be both a protector and a dangerous enemy that destroys the body. Readers will get acquainted with the advanced medical technologies (medicines and vaccines) by which the modern sciences fight covid, cancer, AIDS and other dangerous diseases.