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A recording of a lecture delivered as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture series. Dr Reidun Twarock of York University explains how mathematics can help us understand the structure of...
Relates how the HIV virus can be contracted. Emphasises the need for care in infection control and how other viruses are more resilient than HIV.
The TWiV crew discuss an outbreak of lethal disease among Cambodian children as well as recombination among attenuated herpes virus vaccines leading to pathogenic viruses.
1) Plant and animal viruses; 2) Bacterial viruses; 3) Bacteria: external features; 4) Bacteria: internal features; 5) Bacteria: additional features; 6) Procaryote miscellany (myxobacteria, blue-green algae,...
Nobel Prizewinner Joshua Lederberg is among those who believe that we have grown too complacent about infectious diseases since the development of antibiotics and the control of diseases such as cholera and...
Looks at a virus derived from sewage that can kill bacteria - a bacteriophage, and the possibilities for using it against antibiotic-resistant disease-causing bacteria. Since the 1930s scientists in Tbilisi...
Using photomicroscopy the film examines the structures and biochemical processes that occur in all living cells. Reviews the historical background leading to the discovery of the cell and an examination of...
Looks at the increasing threat posed by new viruses: the Ebola virus, which struck in Zaire in 1995; hanta in the USA, dengue fever in South America, a virus from the Amazon that eats its victims’ lungs;...
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,...
Examines the characteristics of the five major groups of pathogens that cause infectious disease - bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, and worms - and the diseases they cause in humans, as well as symptoms...
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