Strand B: Tissues, Organs, and Systems of Living Things

Get active in this activity and explore the impact of exercise on your heart rate. Ready, set, GO!

Learn how to measure lung capacity and about the factors that can affect our lung capacity in this hands on activity.

Snake venom can be dangerous for your circulatory system, nervous system or muscular system. But it can also be very useful in medicine.

Scientists are training artificial intelligence to diagnose injuries using x-rays and other medical imagery of you (and millions of others). What improvements and other changes might this bring to the health care system?

Gamma rays might make you think of cancer, harmful radiation or superheroes. But gamma rays have lots of uses: food safety, manufacturing and even medicine!

Medical biotechnology allows scientists to make changes to the genomes of living things. What are the pros and cons of having access to techniques like these?

Everything and everyone ages. But scientists have made discoveries about our cells and circulatory and immune systems that could potentially one day be used to increase human lifespans.

When the cells of Henrietta Lacks were collected by medical researchers after her death in 1951, it changed the future of medicine.

Panic attacks are scary and they upset your body’s chemical equilibrium. Learn what happens to acids & bases in your circulatory system during a panic attack.

This backgrounder explains the different ways that cells repair damage to DNA.

Researchers have found that consuming foods rich in flavanols is linked to more efficient blood flow, which can improve brain function.

When a person has cancer, CAR-T Therapy uses their own cells to destroy the cancer cells in their body.

Microbes are everywhere, even in your digestive tract. Some of these microbes are helpful, and some aren’t.

Heavy metal is a term for some toxic chemical elements. They can cause problems like bioaccumulation, but are useful in nuclear medicine and medical imaging.

Learn the basics of how DNA can be extracted from cells.