An interactive, self-guided lesson on the function of the human immune system and how medical intervention prevents disease. This lesson has many descriptive animations as well as graphs and diagrams to help with understanding. There is...

Students will be able to describe mechanical, chemical, and biological barriers that keep most pathogens out of the human body.

A 10 week interdisciplinary unit plan on disease and epidemics.

Discover new knowledge about molecular biology- how molecules fit together as a lock and key. This has given researchers new diagnostic tools that use immune cells from mice to produce antibodies to detect a specific virus or bacterium.

This site from the MayoClinic.com contains great information on the food allergy. The sections that are covered in the article include: signs and symptoms, causes, risk factors, screening, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.