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Students build and control a virtual immune system to defend their human host from increasingly cunning microbes
Table of Contents for Educators
| Part 1: First Responders | Innate immunity – first line of defense |
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| Level 1: The Sentinels | Introduction to macrophages |
| Level 2: Some Assembly Required | Introduction to complement |
| Level 3: Sugar Coated Nightmare | MBL pathway and macrophage synergy |
| Bonus Levels 4, 5, and 6 | More practice with challenging scenarios |
| Part 2: Reinforcements Cometh | Neutrophils recruitment + more innate functions
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| Level 1: Calling for Backup | Immune cell recruitment from blood |
| Level 2: Hot on the Trail | Chemotaxis and optimizing innate responses |
| Level 3: Nothin' but NET | Full innate immune response |
| Bonus Levels 4, 5, and 6 | More practice with challenging scenarios |
In the works... Support through purchasing Part 2 and bonus levels will allow us to build out Parts 3-5
| Part 3: Invasion from Within | Viruses, MHC 1, Natural killer cells |
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| Level 1: Hidden Agenda | Viruses and bacteria hidden in host cells |
| Level 2: Please Kill Me | Natural Killer Cells – killing infected host cells |
| Level 3: It's Getting Personal | Microbes infect immune cells |
| Part 4: Building the Weapon | Humoral Response |
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| Level 1: The Clones | Antigen presentation and clonal B cells |
| Level 2: Tolerate Thyself | Helper T cells and tolerance |
| Level 3: The Antigen Dance | B cells and T cells working together |
| Part 5: Unleashing a Full Response | Cell-mediated immunity + adaptive concepts |
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| Level 1: Dendritic Messengers | Dendritic cells in antigen presentation |
| Level 2: Déjà vu | Memory cells |
| Level 3: Killer Tees | Cytotoxic T lymphocytes |
