Tiny Bombs in your Blood – The Complement System
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One of the key players of our immune system is the complement system. An army of millions and trillions of tiny bombs, which work together in a complex and elegant dance to stop intruders in your body.
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Question: Is the Complement System, like the rest of the immune system, liable to hijacking by a specialised pathogen?
take THAT atheists. how can you still believe God didnt create all that beautiful complexity.
Very interesting…more please;)
Hey, I have a suggestion…. how about at the end, when you finished all parts about the immune system, you make a video about the whole thing, and maybe a poster , that could be useful for school use, since this topic, even thou important , is often skipped in biology classes and a video/movie and or a poster would make it a lot easier for teachers to teach it…. just saying… (if you need another reason to, you can sell more merch that way, and I’m sure students would catch onto your content more 😉 )
Me: hey look a notification that Kurzgesagt uploaded. Awesome
Kurzgesagt: did you know that you have transformers in your body
“A beautiful example of how many mindless things can do smart things together.”
>Any group assignment with my friends.
@Riccardo La Rosa Why? Just… why? You just gave the code for depression, why would you do such a thing?
@Riccardo La Rosa STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!
“A beautiful example of how many mindless things and a single mindful thing can pretend they are doing smart things together”
FTFY
@Riccardo La Rosa Ohh, wait, I just realized what it means. It’s been a while since I’ve seen that number.
*youre covered in fly’s*
Me : *runs*
*They Turn Into wasps*
Me : *AAAAAAAAH*
my hair feels like fly’s when it flops on my face 😛
Amazing video, I never thought how complex our immune system is.
Its like invading a country the size of Russia but the population is entirely Africanized Bees
@Keylanos Lokj None of it screams god, that’s simply the presupposition echoing in your head… what you could think of as self induced case of seeing what you already believed.
Why are we doing this. You are all a collection of idiots. Shut up and go outside: your squabbling is wasting my emotional resources.
So basically invading russia
@Floop Bloop God doesn’t encourage war
The New Testament
Anti vaxxers: if the immune system is so good why isn’t there an immune system two?
Kurzesagt: observe
@greg77389 vaccines destroy immune system, didnt they teach that to you?
I am Stupid username checks out
Good One is probably a joke. I hope.
NEW INERNET HERO, yes, pls help, I just wanted to make a joke, I don’t want to start unnecessary conflict.
TJ Rivera welcome to the Internet
Kurzgesagt’s “The Immune System”: The Anime
The fight against bacteria trying to infect the body is going to be dramatic
*YES* XD
Adrian Todd
Nice
That general kills comunists like the proteins to the bacterias
@Adrian Todd cells at work 3 amino acids at work
No thank you for teaching us stuff we didn’t know about
Awww this video is *sponsored by YOU* !!!
I’m not working yet, but i watched all the ads for Kurzgesagt 🙂
@pyrointeam It’s another way around,” Kurzgesagt” take the English video to translate it and upload it to their German channel which started a year ago.
@pyrointeam I’m german, so the “you” part is right for me anyway xD
@EL30bro Yes for me too as i am german too, but it was not directed specifically at us germans, as there is the german channel for us, but it seems to me you are just as nerdy as me and prefer to watch it in english… XD
天吉Mark Only real nibbas visit the advertiser to give them even more money
Didn’t appreciate the thought of having thousands of flies turn into wasps on me.
I need to speak to your manager
*Karen Intensifies*
Bacteria Karen: *is covered in complement proteins* Where’s the manager?!?!?
Phagocyte: You called?
Bacteria Karen: 😢
@Tasnim Hossain lol
The complement system is vital against virus infections, which can be very difficult for the body to combat. Viruses get inside our cells, and they hijack the cellular machinery for their use, and in some cases can avoid detection by staying silent inside the cells. Interestingly, not all virus infections lead to bad outcomes.
One particularly fascinating virus type are retroviruses, that can cut and paste their genome inside ours. We have lots of ancient, non-working retrovirus genomes inside our cells leftover from infections long gone. Retroviruses can cause devastating illnesses like AIDS, but in some cases we have used the integrated retrovirus genes for our own use. In fact, a retrovirus infection millions of years ago likely initiated the evolution of all placental mammals.
Btw, I make videos on microbiology.
Keylanos Lokj well if god is more complex, how do you explain its creation?
You, my friend, just got yourself a brand new subscriber
@Keylanos Lokj Yeahhh, I’m pretty sure “god” is the nonsense masterkey answer that ancient people came up with to cover everything they didn’t understand. Which is fine if you’re coming from a place of utter ignorance about how the universe works. Coming from people in the modern world, it’s disingenuous.
I read once that almost half of our entire genome is viral
RETRO VIRUSES ONLY ATTACK BACTERIA YA DIMWIT
“Imagine a trillion bombs under your skin.”
KILLER QUEEN, BITES ZA DUSTO!
“Imagine being covered in wasps”
Beekeeper: Am i a joke to you?
I would love to see a kurzgesagt science textbook with this art style. Perhaps on biology or physics.
I fancy myself an amateur biology nerd. However, this is something I’m hearing about for the 1st time.
I guess I got some research to do now.
Thank you for the information.
“Imagine you are covered in thousands of flies”
Ok
“Now imagine them turning into wasps”
oooh no thank you!
This was so incredibly interesting, what the hell. I’m trying to enjoy my summer, now want to learn about the immune system(though that’s what i’m going to be doing now). Excellent video!
Ayyy! More immune system episodes! Anymore, and we’ll have an episode “epidemic” on our hands. XD
Kurzgesagt: “Imagine being covered in flies”
Me: “No”
Kurzgesagt: “Do it again”
Me: “Stop”
Kurzgesagt: “W A S P S”
LOL