u/Suspicious-Maize-424

I'm a fundamental genomics grad student wondering why does adaptive immunity get more attention?

Here's my thought - Sure, adaptive is the more precise and acts during an organisms lifetime. It lends itself to precision medicine via receptor engineering or Car-t cell therapy. Yet, so much of the efficacy of adaptive immunity relies on interactions with the innate immune system. Cytokine reactions, dendritic cells, mucosal immunity etc. In this sense, innate is less easily actionable by current bioengineering approaches.

What're yours?