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Mysteries of the Microscopic World

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Overview

Join a scientific detective story through a world of wonder with an award-winning professor.

Syllabus

  • By This Professor
  • 01: The Invisible Realm
  • 02: Stone Knives to Iron Plows
  • 03: The Angel of Death
  • 04: Germ Theory
  • 05: The Evolutionary Arms Race
  • 06: Microbial Strategies
  • 07: Virulence
  • 08: Death by Chocolate
  • 09: Bambi's Revenge
  • 10: The Germ of Laziness
  • 11: The 1918 Flu-A Conspiracy of Silence
  • 12: The 1918 Flu-The Philadelphia Story
  • 13: The 1918 Flu-The Search for the Virus
  • 14: Immunity-Self versus Non-Self
  • 15: Adaptive Immunity to the Rescue
  • 16: AIDS-The Quiet Killer
  • 17: The Deadly Strategy of AIDS
  • 18: Autoimmunity-Self versus Self
  • 19: Allergies and Asthma
  • 20: Microbes as Weapons
  • 21: Pandora's Box
  • 22: Old World to New
  • 23: Close Encounters of the Microbial Kind
  • 24: Microbes as Friends

Taught by

Bruce E. Fleury

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