What if inflammation is not a disease but a communication system , one that becomes pathological only when its own signaling cascades spiral beyond the control mechanisms that normally contain them? Immunologist Yoram Vodovotz reframes inflammation as the body's intermediate-timescale information network, connecting injury detection to healing response, and explains why understanding its failure requires thinking at the level of whole-organism control rather than individual molecules. Subscribe for more from the Convergent Science Network podcast series. Yoram Vodovotz joins Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott to trace inflammation from its origins in single-cell stress responses through multi-organ coordination to the neural regulation of immune function via the vagus nerve. At its core, inflammation is communication: molecular pathways that connec ...