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An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System

Matt Richtel

Science / Medicine

Four patients, one immune system, told as an engineering teardown. Khosla reads it as a 'how it works' manual for the most intricate machine in the body - which is exactly the lens needed to invest in its repair.

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  • Vinod Khosla
    “Really an engineering 'how it works' story.”

    Khosla reads biology like an engineer - this is the book he points to for understanding the immune system's architecture.

    medium.com