[decker]

It's quite amazing how the human body has defense in depth to mitigate changes in protein shape due to mutations.

[gopalv]

> the human body has defense in depth

The complement system[1] is somewhat of an amazing look at how inanimate parts of our immune system are like little circuits and circuit breakers in chain reactions, completely triggered at random (i.e you need to "bump" into it, it is not an active entity).

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement_system

[mrkramer]

Human body is miraculous creation a true biomachine.

[planet-and-halo]

It's awesome. Nature is the original distributed system.