Infection and Response

Antibacterial resistance | Bang Goes the Theory

A demonstration of how bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics.

3: Data | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. Before a vaccine or an effective treatment can com...

2: Medical Drugs | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How knowledge gained from the discovery o...

3: Poison | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Dr Michael Mosley explores how scientists went from finding antidotes to poisons to applying poisons as cur...

2: Pus | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors ...

1: Pain | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Michael Mosley discovers what pain is and how we were able to control it with the discovery of morphine at th...

Viruses and vaccines | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine

The discovery of vaccines has helped scientists to tackle a variety of viruses.

Discovery of penicillin | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine

Fleming initially discovered the antibacterial properties of mould that would lead to the disc...

Pain message | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine

Painkillers act at different points along the pain pathways to turn the pain response down.

Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley investigates typhoid and the development of a vaccine to prevent it.

The Story of Louis Pasteur vaccinating Joseph Meister against Rabies | Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley discusses the Story of Louis Pasteur vaccinating Joseph Meister ag...

John Hunter conducts the first study of disease in a controlled experiment | Medical Mavericks

John Hunter conducted the first study of disease in a controlled experiment, w...

Robert Koch & cholera | Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley discusses Robert Koch's cultivation of cholera bacteria.

The Development of Anti-Viral Drugs | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

The story and science behind Gertrude Elion and George Hitching's development of a revolut...

The Discovery of Penicillin | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

The story of how Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin.

Finding Existing Drugs that Work Against COVID-19 | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Looking for drugs to treat COVID-19, a team of scientists established one of...

The Development of Anti-Retroviral Drugs to Treat HIV | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

The story of how Professor David Ho worked in a team to develop the firs...

The Scientists Using AI to find New Solutions to Antibiotic Resistance | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

How can the antibiotic resistance crisis be addressed? ...

Which antibiotic is best to use? | The Truth About…

Angela explains which types of antibiotics we use for different things. She also finds out about a method being trialed...

Innovative testing for use of antibiotics | The Truth About…

Angela finds out about a novel machine that analyses your blood to determine if using antibiotics would be of ...

The role of T cells and antibodies when fighting an infection | Inside the Human Body

Using state-of-the-art graphics, Michael Mosley explains what happens when a virus ente...

An introduction to phagocytes | Inside the Human Body

Michael Mosley looks at how white blood cells, called phagocytes, fight bacteria inside our blood.

How the immune system fights pathogens | The Human Body: Secrets of Your Life Revealed

Spec references J247: B6.3l J250: B6.3i. Researchers study microbes in extreme environ...

How babies gain intestinal bacteria through their mothers milk | The Human Body: Secrets of Your Life Revealed

Why does a human mother's milk contain complex oligosaccharide...

Infested! Living with Parasites

Dr Michael Mosley explores the bizarre and fascinating world of parasites by turning his body into a living laboratory and deliberately infes...

Ultra-Processed Food: A Recipe for Ill Health? | Panorama

Ultra-processed foods contain chemicals that regulators say are safe, but there is emerging evidence of a link betw...

Defeating the Superbugs | Horizon

Meeting the scientists who are tracking the emergence of 'superbugs' - dangerous bacteria resistant to antibiotics - around the world.

T Cells | Made of Stronger Stuff

Psychologist Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken take a journey through the body's immune system and profile a remarkable white blood ...

1: Vaccines | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How the development and delivery of the smallp...

S2E6: The Immune System | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Dr Alice Roberts endures a terrifying test to see how well her immune system works and swab analysis at a student...

Natural killer cells | The Human Body: Secrets of Your Life Revealed

How white blood cells, especially 'natural killer cells' fight viruses in our bodies.

Infested! Living with Parasites

Dr Michael Mosley explores the bizarre and fascinating world of parasites by turning his body into a living laboratory and deliberately infes...

How do vaccines protect the population? | Horizon

Hannah Fry demonstrates how vaccines help to protect human populations and provide protection to those that cannot receive ...

How the COVID-19 Vaccine Works | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Dr Kizzmekia Corbett, part of the team that developed one of the COVID-19 vaccinations, explain...

Edward Jenner's First Vaccination | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

The story of Edward Jenner's discovery that deliberately infecting someone with cowpox could...

Variolation; the fore-runner to vaccination | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Around 1700, an enslaved man who was trafficked to Boston brought with him the kno...

Ring Vaccination and the Eradication of Smallpox | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

In the late 1960s, William Foege was running out of smallpox vaccine in Niger...

Antibodies and vaccines | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice explains what an antibody is and how they relate to getting vaccinated.

How a virus works | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice demonstrates (with donuts) how a virus works differently to bacteria.

A bacterial infection | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice demonstrates what happens when you get a bacterial infection.

Testing for allergies | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice does a 'scratch test' to see what she is allergic to and what having an allergy actually means.

Lymph nodes | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice explains how the lymph nodes use white blood cells to help the body fight infection and disease.

White blood cells and the 'war' on infection | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice explains how white blood cells fight infection and where they come from.

The immune system and white blood cells | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice describes how the immune system works and what white blood cells do when we're ill.

Human defence systems | Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell

This simulation brings to life the process of a cell's defence against viruses.