Scientific Eye – Microbes & Disease – a 19m 13s video:
Scientific Eye – Microbes & Health – a 19m video:
Science in Action – Microbes – a 19m video.
How do vaccines work? – a TED-Ed lesson from Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut:
What is a Fungus? – a TED-Ed lesson from the Naked Science Scrapbook:
You and your microbes – a TEDEd lesson from Jessica Green & Karen Guilleman.
Defense Against Infectious Disease (AHL) from Stephen Taylor – thank you Mr T (of iBiology) – from the OLD syllabus, much is still relevant.
Fantastic animated tutorials from McGraw Hill Education – the Immune response, T-cell dependent antigens, Epitopes, antigen-presenting cells & T-helper cells, cytotoxic T-cells & monoclonal antibody selection.
Three videos from TED-Ed: how we conquered the deadly smallpox virus (well, if we ignore the work of the WHO); Learning from smallpox: how to eradicate a disease and here’s a simple answer to How do vaccines work?
Vaccine infographic created by Leon Farrant.
Infographic from Compound Interest.
The top 10 vaccine infographics here.
One Body by XVIVO (2m 14s):
Get Body Smart: superb interactive, illustrated tutorials and quizzes on human anatomy and physiology.
Fantastic animated tutorials from McGraw Hill Education – HIV replication (how a retrovirus replicates) & how the HIV infection cycle works – and an animated, narrated tutorial on the life cycle of HIV which also includes a quiz (from Sinauer Associates). All in more detail than we need. Why it’s so hard to cure HIV/AIDS (a TED-Ed lesson).
Mr W sings I’m a Virus!:
In Crash Course Biology #32 – Your Immune System: Natural Born Killer, Hank tells us about the team of deadly ninja assassins that is tasked with protecting our bodies from all the bad guys that want to kill us – also known as our immune system.