Imagine being an individual like Summer Stiers, a 31-year-old woman from Oregon coping with dysfunction in multiple organ systems and no diagnosis after years of visits to doctors and medical tests. As described in a recent article in the New York Times Magazine...
Immunologists routinely distinguish between “innate” and “adaptive” immune responses and mechanisms (Medzhitov, 2008). It is often the case that the precise criteria underlying this dichotomy are not explicitly cited when the distinction is...
