Category: Microbiology

Learning Resources for the Life Sciences

Faces of the Ebola response

This interactive module is a tribute to the teachers, health care workers, social workers, journalists and politicians who are working hard to contain the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa. http://www.jackievannice.com/challenge_54_faces/story.html This interactive module was developed by Jackie Van Nice (http://www.jackievannice.com/). It features content and photographs that were originally presented by The…
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The bacteria, fungi & other micro-organisms that call us home

Learn about the bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms that maintain human health. http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/multimedia/0612-human-microbiome/index.html For more resources from Scientific American, please visit their website at: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microbiome-graphic-explore-human-microbiome/

Antigen presentation and cytotoxic T lymphocytes

This narrated animation from the HHMI shows how a cell infected by a virus signals cytotoxic T lymphocytes to kill the cell before the virus replicates and spreads. http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/antigen-presentation-and-ctl To view more resources from HHMI’s BioInteractive website, please visit: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive