Mysteries of the Microscopic World
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
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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