Your work sounds very interesting; here is a quick question: how would you some up the immune system in one sentence!

Question: Your work sounds very interesting; here is a quick question: how would you some up the immune system in one sentence!
- Keywords:
  immune system
Asked by Oliver.T to Ross on 9 Nov 2015.
- Ross King answered on 9 Nov 2015:
  
  Great question! It’s always important for scientists to be able to summarise their work very quickly.
  
  The immune system is important in protecting us from injury and infection – without an immune system we would get diseases much more easily and they would make us much sicker than if our immune systems were in good shape.

Question: Your work sounds very interesting; here is a quick question: how would you some up the immune system in one sentence!