Dr Ronx Ikharia presents the definitive guide, not only to defending yourself against Covid-19, but also boosting your s...
Dr Chris van Tulleken investigates a mysterious virus that could cause the next pandemic, one scientists think will be deadlier than Cov...
Dr Michael Mosley explores the bizarre and fascinating world of parasites by turning his body into a living laboratory and deliberately infes...
Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How the development and delivery of the smallp...
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 describes how the immune system works and what white blood cells do when we're ill.
Alice explains how white blood cells fight infection and where they come f...
Alice demonstrates (with donuts) how a virus works differently to bacteria.
Alice demonstrates what happens when you get a bacterial infection.
Alice does a 'scratch test' to see what she is allergic to and what having an allergy actually means.
Alice explains how the lymph nodes use white blood cells to help the body fight infection and disease.
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...
Dr Kizzmekia Corbett, part of the team that developed one of the COVID-19 vaccinations, explain...
In the late 1960s, William Foege was running out of smallpox vaccine in Niger...
Around 1700, an enslaved man who was trafficked to Boston brought with him the kno...
Hannah Fry demonstrates how vaccines help to protect human populations and provide protection to those that cannot receive ...
This simulation brings to life the process of a cell's defence against viruses.
How white blood cells, especially 'natural killer cells' fight viruses in our bodies.
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