This epilogue is mainly addressed to the young scientists who sincerely love science, love science more than themselves in it, who recognize a superiority of nature, created without human will, who try to help people in the struggle against diseases with understanding that when humans reorganize the nature "now and here" it is impossible to forecast all the consequences, to give the exact prognoses: to predict everything is a haughty illusion. For years we have been considering the growing experimental and clinical data on immunity and the immune system, and an interesting general conclusion has been made: no matter how much novel and unknown have been learned, much more novel and unknown is left to learn, for the reason that our world is permanently changing.
We would like to touch general outlines in the theory of immunity. It was shaping at the end of the 20th century. Quite "a baby" as it is this theory can be easily crashed by preceding long-lived concepts. Meanwhile it does not either challenge anyone or provoke scientific fight. Such fast developing and not canonized area as immunology is able to (or more precisely, unable not to) concieve the "babies" of general theories. Why in the passed years the immunity outlines were initially shaped?
Because by the end of XX the researchers achieved methodological limits in their investigations of a biologic object including: genome sequencing, gene cloning, transgenic organisms and the organisms with gene knockout. Further disintegration of the object under study, a gene, means loss of a code for its biologic identity i.e. not biology, but chemistry, physics, perhaps something else. A new degree of biologic mentality mediated by post gene engineering-cloning period of human culture tries and renews its efforts to comprehend an organism as integrity not restricted by its "ego" but within Earthly nature as a comprehensive whole. A marker for physical unity of all Earthly life forms are nucleic acids, a unified code (the same for any insignificant virus and great organisms). A marker for functional unity of all Earthly life forms is a striking constancy of biological hours namely each living organisms is restricted by a natural period of life with trifling variations within species. Therefore one should not be too much afraid of fatal experimental consequences of human and animal cloning. Natural "buffer" of biological hours would be a real trap for artificial cloning products and would protect a naturally developing organism in a competition