Category Archives: Human Health & Physiology (Core & AHL)
5,000 views and another Brainiac post
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Here are the Brainiacs looking at the differences between fat and thin people.
In these two clips, we can see the buoyant and thermal properties of lipids – ideal for the IBDP Bio statement on the properties of lipids.
Cell Respiration Animation – keeping it simple
Click here for a decent animation of the process of cellular respiration.
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’.
3D Body Models from Global 3B Scientific
Models you can manipulate – and the labels come in a range of languages, so ideal fo
r international students trying to learn the content in a foreign language.
You can zoom in and out, highlight different sections and turn it around.
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:
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