Category Archives: Defense Against Infections Diseases
The Transport System
These links are for the Further Human Physiology unit.
Here’s the powerpoint:
Download here: transport-system.ppt
And here’s the Click4Biology link
Medmovie.com has a large collection of animations which are great for this unit. We can’t link to them directly, but it’s worth having a look around.
The Cardiac Cycle:
Hyper Heart animation and graphs from the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Biointeractive from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Control of the Heart Beat:
A few good links to try from Washburn Rural High School
And don’t forget the Medmovie resource…
Atherosclerosis and Coronary Heart Disease:
Medmovie has good animations for atherosclerosis, heart attacks and heart bypass surgery. There aren’t many that are better…
Production of Tissue Fluid and Lymph:
Hydrostatic and osmotic pressure (fluid exchange) from McGraw Hill
Capillary exchange from coolschool.ca (they have other good resources, too)
Bonus features:
For a good (tricky) prac, here’s a virtual EKG package from skillstat.com
And here’s a decent heart structure tutorial from Gateway Community College
Queen – Say It’s Not True
This one passed me by, being out of the country, but I found out more when I read that Queen were writing a new album and going on tour.
Why is this important?
Well, it’s Queen and it’s a HIV campaign video for a start. And we all know two things:
1. You can’t be a proper scientist if you don’t like Queen.
2. Erm… that’s it.
Let’s also not forget that not many geek-books come with their own trailers…
Manky Mobiles
A nice news story about bacteria on cellphones. Must have been a slow week in Albuquerque.
World AIDS Day next week: 1st December.
Avert.org has a load of great resources for school, aimed at engaging students rather than preaching at them. Well worth a look.
Here’s a nice video from last year’s AIDS Day, entitled ‘Time to Deliver’.
Rexin G: Targeted Biological Agent
This award-winning animation is a high-sheen advert for Rexin G, a nanoparticle combined with a gene to target tumour cells. Is this part of a new wave of targeted medicine? Time will tell. For now, just enjoy the animation.
This animation was produced by Hybrid Animation, who have a series of animation on their site, all very high quality. Go on – have a look!
Many of them are pretty advanced, but this one is about antigenic shift in the bird flu virus.
NHS Vaccinations
Nice, simple animations here:
Aimed at the panicky classes after the Wakefield/MMR-autism fiasco- so are quite basic- but raise some points for discussion.
The rest of the NHS immunisation site contains some good, clear information on vaccination schedules and the various diseases covered.
Defense Against Infectious Disease
Phagocytic leukocyte having a gobble:
Immune response animation. Good plenary.
Cell mediated immune response:
HIV/AIDS: Causes, Myths and Social Impacts
Here’s a nice two-parter of the VSO’s work on HIV/AIDS in Mozambique:
Part 1:
Part 2:
This is a bit dry, but raises a number of good issues about the transmission and social implications of HIV/AIDS.
Here’s Tim & Moby’s take on HIV. Nice and colourful:
And here’s a good one, though big, from NOVA:
NOVA Surviving Aids: HIV in Action
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