Science communication isn’t always easy, especially if you are trying to get across the mind-boggling complexity of immunology or climate change in a 10 minute video. But Philipp Dettmer, the founder ...

Dettmer, founder of science education YouTube channel Kurzgesagt, debuts with an immersive primer on immunology. “The immune system is the most complex biological system known to humanity, other than ...

There’s a joke about immunology that appeared in an article I read a few years ago. The author of the article, Ed Yong, credited it to Jessica Metcalf, a professor and researcher at Princeton. To ...

(via Kurzgesagt) There is this idea floating around that what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. That surviving a disease leaves you better off. And it seems to make sense because we have all ...

Every second of your life you are under attack. Bacteria, viruses, spores and more living stuff wants to enter your body and use its resources for itself. The immune system is a powerful army of cells ...