Cerebellum
Dinosaurs - Cretaceous period and Extinction
How did dinosaurs get their names? What were the dinosaurs like? How long ago did they live? Can a dinosaur be created from DNA? Did they take care of their young? Why did they die out... or did they? In the Cretaceous Period! This is...
Healthcare Triage
How Accurate are Mail-in DNA Tests?
Mail-in DNA tests have been in the news recently. Test results can be over the map, with even identical twins getting some widely variable results. What's the deal with that?
Next Animation Studio
Chinese scientists claims to create world's first CRISPR babies
A scientist in China has been under scrutiny for allegedly using CRISPR, a gene-editing tool, to create the first gene-edited babies.
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Genetic Evidence of Evolution
In this video, the importance of DNA as the fundamental unit of heredity is highlighted. Through advancements in technology, biologists have been able to compare the DNA of different organisms, revealing evolutionary relationships and...
The Wall Street Journal
Understanding Your DNA
Jill Hagenkord, chief medical officer for Color, speaks with Jason Anders, the WSJ's chief news editor, about how the sophistication and democratization of genetic testing will impact the future of medical treatment.
Catalyst University
Primer Design for Cloning ENTIRE Gene Sequence
This video explains how to design primers for amplifying an entire gene of interest from start codon (ATG) to STOP codon. -Forward Primer -Reverse Primer -Ordering Primers using IDT
Barcroft Media
The Woman Who's Allergic To Daylight
HIGHLAND, UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 01: A young woman's skin blisters and burns if she is exposed to only a few minutes of daylight. Lizzie Tenney suffers from the rare, and extreme, skin disorder Xeroderma Pigmentosum. With there only...
Catalyst University
p53, Mitosis, and Apoptosis for Anatomy and Physiology
p53, Mitosis, and Apoptosis for Anatomy and Physiology
Barcroft Media
The Woman Who’s Allergic To Daylight | BORN DIFFERENT
A young woman’s skin blisters and burns if she is exposed to only a few minutes of daylight. Lizzie Tenney suffers from the rare, and extreme, skin disorder Xeroderma Pigmentosum. With there only being around 300 diagnosed cases in the...
Catalyst University
Biotechniques | Principles of Primer Design for Full Gene Amplification
In this video, I will show you how to design primers to amplify the entire gene during a routine PCR.
The Wall Street Journal
CRISPR and the Ethics of Engineering Ecosystems
Kevin Esvelt, assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab, speaks to WSJ health and science reporter Amy Dockser Marcus about how far away we are from DNA editing and the ethical questions along the way.
Cerebellum
Dinosaurs - Late Jurassic periods
How did dinosaurs get their names? What were the dinosaurs like? How long ago did they live? Can a dinosaur be created from DNA? Did they take care of their young? Why did they die out... or did they? In the Late Jurassic Period! This is...
Bizarre Beasts
The Hot Microbe That Revolutionized Biology
Thermus aquaticus is the most important bacterium you may never have heard of. It single-cell-edly revolutionized modern biology and our ideas about the very limits of life on Earth. Who said a Bizarre Beast has to be an animal?
Next Animation Studio
Explainer: How the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing tool works
The 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded on Wednesday, Oct. 7 to two women who developed CRISPR/Cas9, a tool that allows scientists to cut parts of the genome like a pair of molecular scissors.
Next Animation Studio
New DNA technology might bring back the woolly mammoth
New advances in DNA technology might lead to the revival of long extinct species such as the passenger pigeon, the Southern gastric brooding frog and the woolly mammoth, scientists believe. Cloning once required intact DNA for successful...
Cerebellum
Dinosaurs - How Dinosaurs got their names
How did dinosaurs get their names? What were the dinosaurs like? How long ago did they live? Can a dinosaur be created from DNA? Did they take care of their young? Why did they die out... or did they? This is part 1 from the series...
Brains On
Little Bugs that Live on Humans
Microscopic creatures have always lived around, on, and inside of us. While some of these tiny bugs can cause illness, others do us no harm, or may even help us. In this audio story, an entomologist discusses her study of Demodex mites,...
Curated Video
The Havasupai Project Explained
When the Havasupai tribe became the subject of a medical trial in the 1990s, their DNA was covertly used for scientific testing that participants had not consented to. Thirteen years later the secret was discovered and the tribe filed a...
Next Animation Studio
Scientists discover fish parasites that do not breathe: study
The Henneguya salminicola is the first multicellular animal discovered that does not breathe.
Curated Video
Largest human image of a DNA helix
The largest human image of a DNA helix involved 4,000 participants. Leads to a discussion of DNA - its discovery, what it is responsible for, as well as the helix shape.
Curated Video
The Versatile Uses of Precious Metals and Essential Elements
Let's take a look back at the elements silver, hydrogen, phosphorous, germanium, and sulfur.
Catalyst University
DNAse Test | Theory & Results
In this video, we explore the theory and interpretation of results for the DNAse test in microbiology lab.
Guinness World Records
Largest Human Image of a DNA Helix
The largest human image of a DNA helix involved 4,000 participants. This can lead to a discussion of DNA - its discovery, what it is responsible for, as well as the helix shape.
ShortCutsTv
Geographical Profiling Applied the M25 Rapist
One evening a couple were watching tv when they heard a knock on their front door. On the doorstep was a shivering 10-year-old girl wearing only a t-shirt. She had been snatched from outside a community centre in town and raped. The...