Stage 1 of 7Day 1, 08:00
Sneaking in
Inside your nose
LiveWhat am I looking at?
A slice of the cells lining your nose, magnified about 2,000 times.
You
Fine36.9°CNormal temperature
Heart rate 68
Who’s fighting
No defenders yet. Your body hasn’t noticed the virus.
What if…
Change one thing and watch the same virus play out again.
Dig deeper
Charts, a map of your body, the full story and a summary.
The 3D view needs WebGL, which isn’t available here. The steps and explanations still work.
Atlas
Every player in the story: the cells you are made of, your defences, and the microbes trying to get in.
Main defence Helps Minor role. Select a square for the reason.
Everything is drawn to true relative size. A virus is to a red blood cell roughly what a tennis ball is to a car.