Immunity is the ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells. The artist's interest in this topic was aroused after he had observed that each successive generation of hybrids from his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project was more resilient than its purer-bred parents. The arena is chaired by prof. dr. Piet Stinissen, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences at the UHasselt and deals with subjects such as the relationship between biodiversity and immunity, immunity and infections, immunity and ageing, and antibiotics resistance.
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