This live-action video program is about muscle types. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...

Autonomic innervation of the esophagus.

When our body sustains a wound, new cells are formed near the edges of the injury and then move down to the base of the wound. Once these cells have migrated to the center of the wound, they connect with other cells nearby. Once this...

Course, nuclei and pathways of the accessory nerve.

This video tutorial focuses on the structure and actions of the hip joint.

Cotton has been used by humans for millenia for clothing and hundreds, if not thousands, of other uses. Now scientists are examining cotton genomes to try to build stronger, hardier, and otherwise better cotton plants. Secrets of Plant...

This cotton candy machine has a higher calling than satisfying a sweet tooth. It's whipping up polymer fibers that may one day be a key ingredient in life-saving medical technologies. With support from the National Science Foundation,...

In this video, we explore the structure, physiology, and sensation relayed by the Trigeminal Lemniscus pathway.

Autonomic innervation of the heart seen from the anterior view of open thorax.

This live-action video program is about muscle function. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...

The world's population is projected to increase by 2-3 billion over the next 40 years. Already, more than three quarters of a billion people lack access to clean drinking water and 85 percent live in the driest areas of the planet. Those...

They say clothes make the person, but what about clothes that could one day heat, cool, compute and even monitor our health? They're coming! See how they're being made in this episode of Innovation Nation with Miles O'Brien.

Kit Parker is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve and has served multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan. Even when he's not in uniform, this Harvard University bioengineer makes it his mission to protect the men and women of the U.S....

We just learned about epithelial tissue, so let's learn about a second type of tissue, connective tissue. This is extremely abundant in the body, with many different forms and performing many different functions. Even blood is a...

In this live-action program viewers will learn that the there are three muscle types; cardiac, smooth and skeletal. Students will come to understand that all muscles consist of long muscle cells bundled together into muscle fibers. The...

Muscles are a very important type of tissue that allow us to perform many functions - from simpler actions such as blinking our eyes and chewing our food, to more complex ones such as swimming and playing football. Muscles are...

There are 3 different types of neuron, or nerve cell; the sensory neuron which detects the signal, the relay or intermediate neuron, and the motor neurons which trigger the response. We will also look at how synapses work; transmitting...

This tutorial will show you a mixed media technique that can be used in a variety of ways! First, I create a watercolor underpainting. Next, I draw a floral motif over the most interesting areas of the watercolor underpainting using...

Polina Anikeeva hopes to one day be able to regenerate the spinal cord to restore movement for paralyzed people or possibly bypass the spinal cord altogether with a device that mimics its function. With support from the National Science...