Instructional Video6:44
SciShow

Have an Autoimmune Disease? Blame the Black Death

12th - Higher Ed
The bubonic plague killed so many people in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa that that natural selection event is still rippling through our genomes today. But the same genes that helped your ancestors survive the Black Death...
Instructional Video4:00
SciShow

Seasonal Genes & The Science of Fear

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow News, we explore how our genes change with the seasons! Plus, it turns out that even flies get scared sometimes.
Instructional Video4:41
SciShow

Seahorse Pregnancies Could Help us Treat HIV

12th - Higher Ed
Many seahorse species have males with full-blown pregnancies. But in order to do this, their immune system is missing something kind of important.
Instructional Video12:22
JJ Medicine

Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia | Warm, Cold & Paroxysmal Cold Hemoglobinuria | Symptoms, Treatment

Higher Ed
Lesson on Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (Warm, Cold, and Paroxysmal Cold Hemoglobinuria): Clinical features, Laboratory findings, Signs and Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia is one type of anaemia that is due...
Instructional Video11:14
Professor Dave Explains

Glucocorticoids: Mechanisms and Side Effects

9th - Higher Ed
Glucocorticoids constitute a major drug class in treating inflammation and autoimmune disease. These include endogenous hormones that can be administered exogenously, but also synthetic alternatives with a variety of functions. These...
Instructional Video3:23
Mazz Media

Autoimmune Diseases

K - 8th
In this live-action program viewers will learn that an autoimmune disease occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. Students will come to understand that special cells called regulatory T cells...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Arthritis?

9th - 10th
This video explains four different categories of arthritis and their causes. [9:20]