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How can we protect ourselves against diseases? (3)
We think human diseases as the work of an organized, modernized kind of underground “Bad guys” in which bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. We assume that they must...
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Do YOU know your immune system?
Did you know your body has its own “army” ready to defend you against harmful agents such as selective groups of bacteria, virus and germs? This “army” is your immune system, also called your body...
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Is there war? (2)
Once imprisoned within the white blood cell, the bacterium may writhe and twist and disgorge its poisons in a last-ditch effort to escape its captor. But now the neutrophil dispatches its own weapons,...
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What is homeostasis?
The body’s internal and external surfaces support communities of microscopic allies. Populations of resident flora, or friendly bacteria, live on the skin, in the mouth, stomach, and lower intestines....
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What are some of the residents of the body?
We live in a world dense with microbes. Bacteria, virus and fungi abound in the air, water and soil, and on the living things around us. Most of these organisms have little interest in the human...
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Citizens of the body?
We live in a world dense with microbes: bacteria, virus and fungi abound in the air, water, and soil, and on the living things around us. Most of these organisms have little interest in the human...
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