Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How the development and delivery of the smallp...
Alice demonstrates what happens when you get a bacterial infection.
Alice explains what an antibody is and how they relate to getting vaccinated.
The story of Edward Jenner's discovery that deliberately infecting someone with cowpox...
Alice demonstrates (with donuts) how a virus works differently to bacteria.
Hannah Fry demonstrates how vaccines help to protect human populations and provide protection to those that cannot receive ...
Dr Kizzmekia Corbett, part of the team that developed one of the COVID-19 vaccinations, explain...
This simulation brings to life the process of a cell's defence against viruses.
Dr Michael Mosley explores the bizarre and fascinating world of parasites by turning his body into a living laboratory and deliberately infes...
Alice explains how the lymph nodes use white blood cells to help the body fight infection and disease.
How white blood cells, especially 'natural killer cells' fight viruses in our bodies.
In the late 1960s, William Foege was running out of smallpox vaccine in Niger...
Dr Alice Roberts endures a terrifying test to see how well her immune system works and swab analysis at a s...
Psychologist Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken take a journey through the body's immune system and profile a remarkable white blood ...
Alice does a 'scratch test' to see what she is allergic to and what having an allergy actually means.
Alice describes how the immune system works and what white blood cells do when we're ill.
Around 1700, an enslaved man who was trafficked to Boston brought with him the kno...
Alice explains how white blood cells fight infection and where they come f...
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