Healthcare Triage
A Vaccine for Breast Cancer?
Cancer prevention is a major goal in health research, and one major milestone was the HPV vaccine, which targets a virus that is responsible for different types of cancer, mainly cervical cancer. Now we’ve got some recent excitement in...
Curated Video
Relationships and Immunity: The Impact of Happiness and Stress on Flu Vaccination Response
This video discusses how happiness, particularly in the context of a happy marriage, can impact immune response to the flu vaccine. Research conducted at the University of Birmingham found that individuals in happy marriages showed a...
Curated Video
Chronic Wasting Disease: A Deadly Disease For Deer
Join us as Taylor explains why Chronic Wasting Disease is such a challenging and scary disease for animals in the deer family. By sharing what we know with others, we hope to find new ways to help as many animals as possible!
JJ Medicine
Vitamin C and the Immune System | Roles of Vitamin C in Respiratory Infections
Vitamin C and the Immune System | Roles of Vitamin C in Respiratory Infections Vitamin C (also known as ascorbic acid) is an essential, water-soluble vitamin that is required in the human diet as it is necessary for a variety of bodily...
Catalyst University
Anatomy - Positive & Negative Selection for Lymphocytes
In this video, we explore the basic processes of positive selection and negative selection, which select competent lymphocytes that don't attack our own self-cells.
Professor Dave Explains
Types of Immune Cells Part 2: Myeloid and Lymphoid Lineages
With the basic functions of immune cells covered, we are now ready to go through all the different types of immune cells, and talk a little bit about what they all do. Again, each type will get its own tutorial later in the series, but...
Professor Dave Explains
Cytokines and Chemokines
We've talked about how immune cells communicate with one another using cytokines and chemokines, but we have not yet gone into detail regarding these soluble protein signals. What are the names of these molecules, which include...
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: Organs on Chips in Space
Dr. Lucie Low, Scientific Program Manager at the National Institutes of Health, talks about tiny devices the size of the thumb drive that replicate the structure and function of human organs. Low discusses the importance of testing these...
Catalyst University
Pulmonary Pharmacology [Part 2] | Drugs Affecting Inflammation
In this video, we explore the major classes of drug classes that are used in the treatment of pulmonary disorders (asthma and COPD) along with their mechanisms of action. Specifically, we consider the classes of drugs that directly...
Catalyst University
Physiology of Neutrophils, Macrophages, and Dendritic Cells
In this video, we explore the functions of neutrophils, macrophages, and dendritic cells.
Curated Video
Understanding Vaccination: How Memory Cells Respond to Invasion by Pathogens
This video provides an overview of vaccination, explaining how it triggers an immune response and manufactures memory cells, which enables the body to respond quickly and effectively to a particular pathogen in the future. The video also...
Catalyst University
Basics & Structures of the Lymphatic System
This video is an overview of the major players in the lymphatic system. We also discuss selective fluid drainage via the thoracic duct and the right lymphatic duct.
TLDR News
How Close Are We To Coronavirus Vaccines?(July 2020) & Bill Gates’ COVID Plans - TLDR News
The man at the centre of many conspiracy theories is also at the centre of the global fight against COVID-19. Bill Gates and his foundation have a clear view and plan for this pandemic so in this video, we look at their approach, how...
Next Animation Studio
1st person in US gets experimental coronavirus vaccine
A U.S. volunteer became the first person to receive an experimental COVID-19 vaccine as part of the first phase of humans trial on March 16, the Associated Press reports.
Science360
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Why are bat viruses so deadly?
Coronavirus outbreak raises question: Why are bat viruses so deadly? It’s no coincidence that some of the worst viral disease outbreaks in recent years — SARS, MERS, Ebola, Marburg and likely the newly arrived COVID-19 — originated in...
Healthcare Triage
How and When Will We Get A Coronavirus Vaccine?
Racial inequality runs deep in healthcare and has pervasive, devastating outcomes. Because our expertise here at Healthcare Triage is in health, that is where we feel we are best suited to shine a light on racial disparities. What is...
Catalyst University
Clonal Selection EXPLAINED
In this video, we discuss the basic idea of clonal selection.
Next Animation Studio
Explainer: How Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose COVID vaccine works
Johnson & Johnson announced on Jan. 29 that its single-dose coronavirus vaccine was 66 percent effective in preventing moderate disease
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - Cancer Wars
Cancer researchers dream that one day our bodies will cure themselves of cancer. In Cancer Wars we hear from cancer researchers’, like Awen Gallimore, hope that cutting edge research using the immune system and antibodies, will make that...
Next Animation Studio
Explainer: How the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID vaccine works
The University of Oxford and AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine was 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 in clinical trials, AstraZeneca said in a November 23 press release.
Catalyst University
The Appendix & Basics of Tonsils and Peyer's Patches
In this video we discuss in detail the functions of the vermiform appendix (or simply, appendix) and the process of developing an appendicitis. At the end, we briefly mention two other secondary lymphoid structures (tonsils and Peyer's...
Next Animation Studio
Antidepressant can reduce sever COVID symptoms
The antidepressant fluvoxamine, sold under the brand name Luvox, could reduce risk of severe COVID-19 symptoms by almost a third in high risk patients.
The Wall Street Journal
Lessons from Covid-19 Drug Development
Regeneron CEO Leonard Schleifer discusses new Covid-19 treatments, and the successes and failures in the process of developing drugs for a global pandemic.
Catalyst University
Eicosanoid Biosynthesis [Part 2] | Leukotrienes
Eicosanoid Biosynthesis [Part 2] | Leukotrienes