What is an “immune system”? It differentiates self from non-self. It forms memory traces. It coordinates tissue-wide plasticity responses. It builds up and breaks down barriers between organism and environment.
And it may be integrating far more than chemical information alone, reading mechanical, electrical, magnetic and other energetic signals across the body to decide how tissues should respond.
This is so much more than a germ-killing mechanism. The immune system is the equivalent of city planning for the body: the painstaking work of interpreting many streams of information to realize a larger biological plan.
Imagine if we could learn to read, and eventually revise, those blueprints.
Source video: https://lnkd.in/g46rGHrQ
(Neutrophils patrolling around the annual killifish embryo in gold, with the lateral plate mesoderm forming in cyan.)
I heard she was behind biophotonics of the mitochondria (and even using photons to see the brain)
I also heard she interacts a lot with Alan Cohen’s collaborator in mitochondria at columbia (picard)
and she’s probably way more of a divergent thinker than most of the biology field