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Disease X: Hunting the Next Pandemic

Dr Chris van Tulleken investigates a mysterious virus that could cause the next pandemic, one scientists think will be deadlier than Cov...

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...

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

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

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

Alice demonstrates what happens when you get a bacterial infection.

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.

01: 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 small...

Boosting Your Immune System | The Truth About...

Dr Ronx Ikharia presents the definitive guide, not only to defending yourself against Covid-19, but also boosting your stren...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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...

S02E06: 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 stude...

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.

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...

02: Discovering Vaccines | Medical Mavericks

Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors learnt to harness the immune system by exposing themselves to incurable diseases ...