Curated Video
The Role of White Blood Cells in the Immune System
The video provides an explanation of how the immune system works to defend the body against infection from pathogens, using white blood cells. It focuses on two types of white blood cells, phagocytes and lymphocytes, describing their...
Curated Video
Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases: Understanding the Types and Impacts
This video is a lecture presentation on communicable and non-communicable diseases. The presenter defines what a disease is and explains the difference between communicable and non-communicable diseases. The video also discusses the...
FuseSchool
How Is Water Treated In Sewage Works
The aim of sewage treatment should be to return nutrients back to the soil, but without any harmful pathogens. Composting toilets do this, making use of aerobic bactweria to achieve a pathogen free fertiliser. However, most toilets are...
Professor Dave Explains
The Immune System: Innate Defenses and Adaptive Defenses
There are so many critters out there, bacteria and viruses that want to wreak havoc in our bodies. How do we defend ourselves against such tiny threats? The immune system! This is quite possibly the most profoundly remarkable aspect of...
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Micro World Right Under Your Feet
The Micro World Right Under Your Feet
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to the Microbial World
It's time to learn about microorganisms! These are all the tiny little critters in the water, and the air, and in the ground, and inside you. We didn't even know they were there until a few hundred years ago, but once we started to learn...
Cerebellum
Colonization Of North America: Spanish Settlements - Bringing Christianity To North America And The Conquest Of The Aztecs
Chronicles the exploits of Cortes, De Soto, and Coronado; and Spanish incursions into South & Central America, Mexico and the American Southwest. This video looks at the impact of Spanish missions to North America and how many Native...
Catalyst University
Anatomy & Physiology of the Spleen
In this video, we discuss the following: [1] the basic anatomy of spleen [2] the two major functions of the spleen (RBC degradation & immune responses) and the division of labor between red and white pulp.
FuseSchool
What Are Vaccinations?
Vaccinations protect both humans and animals from a wide range of preventable and potentially serious illnesses. With vaccines, we take advantage of one of the most important aspects of the immune system: the ability to develop...
Mazz Media
Integumentary System
In this live-action program viewers will learn that the integumentary system is the body's barrier between its interior and the outside. It is an organ system consisting of the skin, hair, nails, and exocrine glands. Students will come...
FuseSchool
Fungal Diseases
Imagine a world without bananas! It’s a real possibility… a fungal disease is attacking and killing banana trees, and as yet we haven’t found a cure.
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Infectious Diseases and Transmission
This video provides an overview of infectious diseases and how they are transmitted. It explains the role of the immune system in fighting off harmful organisms and highlights various ways pathogens can be spread, including direct and...
Science360
Science Behind The News: Influenza & Flu Vaccines
Every flu season, Americans battle coughs, fevers and body aches. The flu is a respiratory illness caused by a virus, a pathogen that causes disease in the human body. To understand how the flu is caught, spread and treated, Duke...
FuseSchool
What Is Blood?
In this video we are going to discover what blood is made of and the roles of the different components. Blood consists of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma. Red blood cells are disc shaped and contain haemoglobin,...
FuseSchool
The Immune System
The main role of the immune system is to prevent disease caused by infection. Infections can be caused by a wide variety of pathogens, including bacteria, fungi, parasites (such as malaria) and viruses (such as influenza and the common...
Curated Video
+EMBARGOED 1100 GMT 9 APRIL 2014+ World Health Organisation releases first guidelines for Hepatitis C treatment
Hepatitis C virus is most commonly transmitted through exposure to contaminated blood.
Which is why tattooist Nick Reid has a long hygiene ritual before he begins to work on client Cain McLaren.
All surfaces are scrubbed down with...
Bozeman Science
Plant and Animal Defense
Explain the defense systems of both plants and animals against pathogens with a biology video. It covers the disruption of the immune system through hypersensitive responses, normal responses, nonspecific immune responses, as well as the...
TED-Ed
Vultures: The Acid-Puking, Plague-Busting Heroes of the Ecosystem
Vultures may be difficult to imagine as super-heroes. They eat rotten meat, puke acid, and certainly aren't very attractive. However, recent research has shown how essential they are to the ecosystem. A short animated video reveals how...
TED-Ed
How Do Viruses Jump from Animals to Humans?
Can humans be infected by animal viruses? Pupils explore the phenomenon of viral evolution and learn about how animal viruses sometimes adapt to infect humans. They see how viruses are transmitted and what pathogens need to survive. The...
Be Smart
Could You Be Immune to Everything?
Could super immunity be the next big super power? Discover the amazing inner workings of the immune system through an engaging video from an interesting science playlist. Animated antibodies take on a variety of pathogenic invaders while...
FuseSchool
Human Defense Systems Against Pathogens
With so many harmful agents around us, how do humans stay healthy? Find out by watching an informative video from a larger biology playlist that details our defenses against a variety of pathogens. The narrator describes the body...
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What Are White Blood Cells?
White blood cells are our body's tiniest warriors! How do they work? Biology scholars discover the types and functions of white blood cells through a video from an intriguing biology playlist. The resource profiles both types of white...
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How are Pathogens Spread and Controlled?
How can we stop the tiny terrors that cause illness? Junior epidemiologists examine the methods used to control the spread of pathogens with a video from from a biology playlist. The narrator describes the benefits of hygiene,...