Immunologist professor, Daniel Davies from Manchester University, has recently published a book, "The Beautiful Cure: the Revolution in Immunology and What It Means for your Health". Here he talks to NPR's Fresh Air host, Terry Gross, about the complexity of the immune system: how differently it works during the day and during the night, how stress can weaken the immune system, how age changes the immune system and how discoveries in immune system research can help fight diseases like cancer or rheumatoid arthritis. Finally, Daniel Davies explains how difficult it is for scientists to understand the data that they gather from immune system research because it is very surprising and counter-intuitive.
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