COVID-19 changed the world in 2020. Questions around testing, vaccines, treatments, who gets ill and who doesn’t – these all relate to immune memory. Part III explains why immune memory doesn’t last forever, and how some diseases can evade an…
This video describes, in generally understandable terms, how the human immune system functions. A bar code analogy is used to simplify a very complex defense mechanism.
Scientists say trials of a new Coronoavirus vaccine being developed at Oxford University are “extremely promising”. Initial results showed the injection led to patients making antibodies and also T-Cells – those are the white blood cells which can destroy the…