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The DVD provides vital information about and precautions required when dealing with the H1N1 swine flu virus and a possible pandemic. It covers: What is flu?; Difference between seasonal and pandemic flu;...
The DVD discusses the origins of Avian Flu and provides information about the disease, how it originated and how it can affect humans. It looks at: What to do in the event of an Avian Flu pandemic; How the...
As a virulent new strain of influenza spreads across Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East on the wings of migratory birds, scientists look to the past in order to prevent a future global pandemic. The...
1: Looks a the use of molecular modelling in the search for a drug to combat flu: the problem of flu infection, the action of sialidase; laboratory processes for isolating and identifying the structure of...
Looks at medical scientists working in three fields: studying insects to see if they contain chemicals that will be useful for medicines; how some diseases can be carried on DNA and how this can be...
The panel, chaired by Colin Blakemore and consisting of John Oxford, Richard Peto, Trisha MacNair and Mike Maier, discuss how lifestyle, old and emergent diseases, and recent developments in science, will...
Looks at the risks imposed by emerging diseases and examines four specific examples in detail. Deals in turn with the following topics: What is an emerging disease? - one which suddenly appears in a...
Dr Barbara Pearse from the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge describes her discovery of the protein clathrin, which plays an important role in this process. Other proteins, called receptors,...
Looks at the search for an influenza vaccine. The main attack has concentrated on the B cell and antibody response to the coatspikes, but more recently there has been considerable interest in the role of...
Four 45-minute broadcasts in the 2010 series of Reith Lectures, exploring the challenges facing science in the 21st century. Delivered by Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society, Master of Trinity...
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