The Blurry Line Between Tolerance and Rejection

Mike Magee Are you for us, or against us? Will you tolerate border incursions, or deter, destroy, and extract? Will you bend (and how far) to accommodate your former enemies and betray your friends? These questions may sound provocative and political, but they have nothing to do with our current leadership disarray in the U.S. […]

Is “Self vs. Non-Self” in Immunology as iron-clad as we thought?

Mike Magee In 1872, English mathematician and sometimes poet, Augustus de Morgan, wrote this catching rhyme: “Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ‘em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.” This truism about competition among species for access to nutrition and reproduction could have come in handy to […]