Janeway's immunobiology
by Kenneth P. Murphy, Kenneth Murphy · first published 2011
83% recommend17% neutral
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A standard immunology textbook and a reference for the field, offering a thorough grounding in how the immune system works for students and working scientists.
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This is a textbook that introduces the immune system in all its aspects to undergraduates, and also provides a treatment of the subject that is comprehensive enough to be useful to graduate students interested in research, and to medical students focused on clinical applications. The Eighth Edition has been thoroughly revised and updated.
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on “Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?” ↗…book about algorithms. Alternative is Sipser - An Introduction to Statistical Learning: This is like a diet form of Elements of Statistical Learning which is much more approachable and pragmatic. - Janeway's Immunobiology - De facto standard of immunology. Great. - SICP: duh - Principles of Data Integration: This is more because the subject matter is so important and nobody really has studied fundamentals. Did you know…
on “Ask HN: What, in your opinion, are the greatest and most useful textbooks?” ↗…analysis, Biochemistry, Drug design, Cancer bio, and doing some limited original research. My favorite books in the past were "Cell and Molecular Biology" by Karp, "Molecular Biology" by Weaver, and "Janeway's Immunobiology", all of which enabled me to read the primary literature and contributed greatly to how I now see the world. There are also a bunch of poor or suboptimal ones that are not really worth worth pursuing.…
on “Brooke the Immortal: An American Child May Hold Secrets to Aging” ↗…involve different cell populations and signalling pathways (eg. why poison ivy allergy is different from pine allergy). If you're interested, the Wikipedia articles aren't a bad read. I also recommend Janeway's Immunobiology as a great intro to the entire subject.
on “Why do we have allergies?” ↗…(simplifying white lie), and it is mostly at the host-population level that immune evasion evolves over time, so the population dynamics are totally different. Edit: I recommend Lange’s Medical Microbiology and Janeway’s Immunobiology for those who are interested enough in learning more.
on “Some experts suggest Omicron variant may have evolved in an animal host” ↗Janeway's Immunobiology is the classic textbook Here's the 8th edition (2012): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dx0egzl37bfsl9ur6zsg1/janeway...
on “Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025” ↗…if at all. While there have been lots of additional details added over the last two decades, the fundamentals are unchanged for the most part. This wouldn't apply to other fields such as Immunology (Janeway's Immunobiology) where I have purchased multiple copies of the years due to the field changing so fast.
on “Consider working on genomics” ↗