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How The Immune System ACTUALLY Works – IMMUNE

A Kurzgesagt animation giving a big-picture tour of the human immune system, its organs, transport network, and the cells it produces every day. It accompanies their IMMUNE book.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters suggest it as a simple, well-made introduction to how immune responses work when discussing infection, T cells or chronic illness.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Topic
immune system
Format
explainer
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2021–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • The point of a vaccine is to not get the actual virus, or at least to minimize its effects if infected. When you are infected with anything, you do not always develop anti-bodies. If you do develop anti-bodies, they might not be effective at actually …

    RealFloridaMan on Hacker News · 2021-11
    In Immunity from Covid-19 Infection May Be as Strong as from Vaccination

  • There is nothing in the behavior of cells that is reflective of human intelligence. Cells are "amino acid robots." They string the 26 programmed amino acids into exotic plastics/proteins to execute their programmed functions. There is no relation to human behavior in cellular behavior. At …

    chasil on Hacker News · 2023-05
    In T Cells Can Activate Themselves to Fight Tumors

  • > is there a department of immunology that takes over or even contributes. Because we don't see the immune system as the organ it is. Which is odd that things like vaccines are effectively medicines for that organ. But at the end of the day …

    pixl97 on Hacker News · 2023-09
    In Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection origin

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