Mazz Media
Blood Vessels
This live-action video program is about blood vessels. 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...
Curated Video
Scientists may now know what is causing long COVID
Researchers took blood tests and special brain scans of 32 patients who previously had a COVID infection.
Curated Video
New treatment to help prevent failing eyesight ++REPLAY++
Surrey, UK, February 22, 2013
1. Close Jonathan Gathorne- Hardy eye patient with wet AMD (age related macular degeneration) having test
2. Various of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) being used to create cross section image of...
Sky News
Boris Johnson visits healthcare facility
CLEAN: Interior shots of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson chatting with staff as he visits community diagnostics hub and sees various scan machine they have, including CT scanner and retina, eye health scanner on 18th January 2022 in...
Bozeman Science
Circulatory System
The average person's heart beats about three billion times during their lifetime. In this circulatory system video, learners briefly see the difference between an open and closed circulatory system. The rest of the video focuses on the...
Curated OER
The Circulatory System
Compare a variety of animals' circulatory systems to the human circulatory system. Paul Andersen uses his SMART Board to show the differences between two, three, and four chamber hearts, focusing on the human heart.
TED-Ed
How Light Technology Is Changing Medicine
Medicine has gone high tech. But how do the new, less invasive diagnostic tools work? An engaging short video sheds light on how integrated photonics is revolutionizing the medical sensor industry.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
VEGF
Have you ever wondered what causes tumors to grow? VEGF is a very important factor because it is a hormone that causes blood vessels to grow and is triggered by cancer cells to increase blood supply to a tumor. Viewers learn about the...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Angiogenesis
How do cancer cells grow? With the right resources, the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells into tumors sometimes happens rapidly. The cancer then metastasizes to other areas of the body. The informative video helps scholars discover...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
How a Heart Attack Occurs
Heart disease causes more deaths in both men and women in the United States than any other factor, buy many people don't fully understand what causes a heart attack. A brief animation demonstrates the slow buildup of plaque, a blockage...
TED-Ed
What Happens During a Stroke?
A stroke can severely impact a patients' speech, motor skills, and quality of life—if they survive the event in the first place. Learn what happens to the brain during a stroke, and how you can help if someone you see is experiencing a...
Crash Course
Blood Vessels – Form and Function (Part 1)
Did you know that blood vessels can constrict or expand in response to extreme weather? The 27th video in a series of 47 about the human body viewers learn interesting facts about blood vessels. The narrator goes over the three layers of...
University of California
What Does Sugar Actually Do To Your Body?
Eat less sugar; you are sweet enough already. The video explains how the body processes glucose and fructose, then highlights the differences and results of both. It also includes suggestions for staying healthy.
Engenius Films
Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration
Meet Lindsey, a mechanical engineer who has taken up bioengineering. She uses her skills to model blood vessels and their interaction with regenerating tissues. She continues to discuss the future of bioengineering in an informative video.
TED-Ed
How Do Your Kidneys Work?
If humans can live without one kidney, how important can they really be? Investigate the vital role these organs play in filtering our blood, removing waste, and managing our bodies' water supply with this short animated video.
TED-Ed
How a Wound Heals Itself
Did you know that the biggest organ in the human body isn't the brain, the liver, or even the lungs? It's the skin. Follow along with this short video as it explores the structure of human skin and its amazing ability to...
TED-Ed
Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?
Is there an answer for cancer? Your AP biologists will be inspired by this lecture on how the foods that we eat stimulate or inhibit the growth of blood vessels, which in turn, bring health or disease to the human body. Research is...
Curated OER
Circulation
A model of a torso in a high school classroom is displayed while the teacher points out various arteries going from the heart to the GI tract and down to the legs. She then looks at the veins coming back up and some superficial vessels....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Blood Vessels: Arteries vs. Veins What's the Difference?
Learn some important differences between arteries (high pressure/low volume) and veins (low pressure/high volume). Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [11:09]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Blood Vessels, Part 1: Form and Function
We begin our look at how blood gets around your body. In this episode, we look at the basic three-layer structure of your blood vessels. We review how those structures differ slightly in different types of vessels. We will also follow...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Blood Vessels, Part 2: Blood Pressure Kills
In this episode, we return to blood vessels. We discuss what blood pressure is, how it can become "high," and what that means for our health. One of the more interesting points is that your body has ways of dealing with high blood...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Judah Folkman's Legacy
This Science Friday looks at the scientific legacy of angiogenesis researcher Judah Folkman. [25:7]
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #29: Blood, Part 1 True Blood
Now that we've talked about your blood vessels, we're going to zoom in a little closer and talk about your blood itself. We'll start by outlining the basic components of blood -- including erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets, and plasma...