…learned the latin word for a cow!
Really truly!
“Cow” is “vacca” in latin, and because of Edward Jenner, we get the word “vaccine” from “vacca!”
Pretty cool, huh?
This week at med school, I also learnt that immunology is hard!
This is what the textbook sounds like: “These interactions then promote the binding of the Beta2-integrin, LFA-1 to ICAM-1 and ICAM-2 on the endothelium, resulting in mogration into the lymph node.”
And the pictures in another textbook aren’t much easier to understand!
Feeling confused?
Don’t worry, you’re not the only one!
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July 13, 2011 at 11:55 pm
CT
Good luck! I looooove immunology but I agree that it takes a lot of work to understand everything, especially at the beginning when you don’t have a ‘framework’ for all the information yet. Having an awesome immunology professor helps a lot!
Are your summer (winter?) holidays really that short? We’ve got summer holidays from 9 July to the first of September.
July 14, 2011 at 11:48 am
Renate
Well, at least there’s hope on the immunology side then…
Our holidays (yes, it is winter now in South Africa) are about three weeks, running from June to July.
