n this video, we will discuss the basic idea of herd immunity and what it means. Then, we will discuss the basic idea of a pathogen's basic reproduction number (R0) and how to predict the number of individuals who require immunization to...

The novel coronavirus’s genetic sequence has a segment that produces a substance known as nonstructural protein 1.

It describes various means by which an individual acquires active and passive immunity.

UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has been on the ropes for a while now - besieged by scandal after scandal. The latest may well be his last though, with high profile figures resigning and telling him to give up... so is it really all over?

You’re infected. Something harmful is in your body and you gotta get rid of it. In this video, I’m gonna talk about four ways your immune system attacks everything.

In which John, inspired by Eula Biss's book On Immunity, considers how immunity and inoculation happen. Other topics discussed include vaccination, the relationship between individual efforts and collaboration, and what must be shared to...

Mucormycosis is a deadly fungal infection and treatment often requires the removal of the eyes of patients. Doctors believe ubiquitous mucor mould becomes deadly when a patient’s immunity is weakened by coronavirus and the steroids used...

This Video Explains Privileges and Immunities Clause

So far we’ve been pretty focused on the antibody side of things during the pandemic, but recent work suggests that T Cells aren’t sitting this one out, and that could mean something significant in terms of immunity, even for people who...

This video explains the concept of immunity and the role of the immune system in fighting infections. It discusses how vaccines help create immunity by stimulating the production of antibodies and cells that can inactivate harmful...

We took a look at aerobic respiration in the biochemistry series, and we know that it requires molecular oxygen to occur. But there are other forms of energy production that do not require oxygen. Those are anaerobic respiration and...

Acquiring Immunity - Viruses/Immunity Set - Part 3, This clip offers a step by step look at how the human body develops immunity to infectious diseases.

Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by the poliovirus, which has the ability to infect motor neurons in the spinal cord and cause paralysis. American President Franklin Roosevelt was famously crippled by polio. The poliovirus exists in a...

We've already learned about certain kinds of modification to the genome, namely in the way of mutations that can occur to specific base pairs, or frameshift mutations when base pairs are deleted or inserted. But there can also be...

As we know from our understanding of microbiology, pathogens are everywhere. So why don't we get sick all the time? And what are allergies, why do some people have them and others don't? And what are vaccines, how do those work? All of...

Understanding Vaccines - Viruses/Immunity Set - Part 4. This clips examines how vaccines are made and how they are able to produce immunity to infectious diseases.

Ok, we are ready to investigate the immune system! So where do we start? Rather than starting on the big objects, like the organs in the lymphatic system, the best way to dive in is to briefly discuss the different types of cells that...

We've touched on apoptosis before, especially when we learned about cancer in the biochemistry series. But let's a closer look. We know that apoptosis is programmed cell death, a failsafe mechanism whereby faulty cells that pose a threat...

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This video explains the two main types of immunity - active and passive. Also, the video highlights the importance of vaccines in developing immunity and how they have greatly improved human life. Investigating the Immune System part 6/9