[pixl97]

> 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 we still don't know 'that much' about the immune system because of its extreme complexity. It's still very difficult or impossible to target a bad acting immune response in an individual without disabling all the immune system (and yea, this puts you at a lot of risk).

I like the series that Kurzgesagt made on the immune system as a way to explain this complexity a little more simply.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXfEK8G8CUI

[doingtheiroming]

The book that accompanies the Kurzgesacht series is very good. I bought it for my eldest who enjoyed it enormously. He's been complaining about his HS biology lessons being rubbish as a result.

[doingtheiroming]

The fact of its complexity is why we need to start treating it as a unit. Reductive thinking, research and treatment won't lead us to a proper understanding of it. Among the potential benefits of the development of AI is hopefully an improvemnt in our ability to reason about and understand complex entities like the immune system. I think it's more likely that a new specialism will develop from that, that doctors developing one from what exists today.