immunology

HISTORY OF IMMUNOLOGY

Man’s interest in achieving some level of resistance to diseases and their causative agents (i.e. immunity) gave impetus to the study of immunology. The field of immunology actually began when it was observed that people who had earlier suffered and recovered from a particular infection or disease were afterwards discovered to have been protected from […]

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Introduction to Immunology / Immune System

Immunology is simply defined as the study of how the immune system of a living organism functions in either a disease condition or a healthy state. It is the study of how an organism responds to foreign bodies (antigens) that it comes in contact with in the environment, and its differentiation from the body’s own

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