# Immunitas magistra vitae: The time has come to replace humanity’s teacher of life

**Authors:** Vladimir Leksa

PMC · DOI: 10.1038/s44319-025-00592-5 · EMBO Reports · 2025-10-27

## TL;DR

The paper suggests that learning from the immune system's balance could help humanity avoid current dangers.

## Contribution

The novelty lies in proposing the immune system as a model for human societal balance and survival.

## Key findings

- Humanity faces deadly dangers due to forgetting past lessons.
- A well-balanced immune system offers rules that could save humanity.

## Abstract

Humankind apparently has forgotten the lessons from the past and finds itself in deadly dangers. Following the rules by which a well-balanced immune system works could save us.

## Full-text entities

- **Genes:** CILK1 (ciliogenesis associated kinase 1) [NCBI Gene 22858] {aka CED6, ECO, EJM10, ICK, LCK2, MRK}, HLA-C (major histocompatibility complex, class I, C) [NCBI Gene 3107] {aka D6S204, HLA-JY3, HLAC, HLC-C, MHC, PSORS1}, MTOR (mechanistic target of rapamycin kinase) [NCBI Gene 2475] {aka FRAP, FRAP1, FRAP2, RAFT1, RAPT1, SKS}
- **Diseases:** cancer (MESH:D009369), infectious diseases (MESH:D003141), measles (MESH:D008457), polio (MESH:D011051), type I hypersensitivity (MESH:D006969), gangrene (MESH:D005734), allergic reaction (MESH:D004342), pain (MESH:D010146), smallpox (MESH:D012899), pneumonia (MESH:D011014), fractures (MESH:D050723), immunodeficiency (MESH:D007153), COVID-19 (MESH:D000086382), wand hooping cough (MESH:D003371), deaths (MESH:D003643)
- **Chemicals:** fatty acids (MESH:D005227)
- **Species:** Canis lupus familiaris (dog, subspecies) [taxon 9615], Orthopoxvirus vaccinia (species) [taxon 10245], Variola virus (smallpox virus, no rank) [taxon 10255], Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606]

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