SciShow
Teratomas: What Tumors with Teeth Can Teach Us About Stem Cells
There’s one kind of tumor that’s basically straight out of a horror movie...
Crash Course
Animal Development: We're Just Tubes - Crash Course Biology
Hank discusses the process by which organisms grow and develop, maintaining that, in the end, we're all just tubes.
Crash Course
Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, & Octopuses - Crash Course Biology
Hank introduces us to the "simplest" of the animals, complexity-wise: beginning with sponges (whose very inclusion in the list as "animals" has been called into question because they are so simple) and finishing with the most complex...
Catalyst University
What's the Deal with Induced Pleuripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs)?
In this video, we explore... [1] a brief history of Embryonic Stem Cells (ESCs) [2] basics of how Induced Pleuripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) were made [3] basic applications of IPSCs
Professor Dave Explains
Stages of Animal Development: Cleavage, Gastrulation, Organogenesis
Before diving into animal diversity, we need a bit more information about animal development, as it will help us understand what we're looking at later. We know that animals reproduce sexually, so a sperm fertilizes an egg to yield a...
Curated Video
How to live without a heart or a brain - Lessons from a Jellyfish
The jellyfish is one weird sea animal. What makes it even weirder is that it doesn’t have a brain or a heart. Though it doesn’t have a brain, it does have a nervous system in the form of nerve nets and some have a structure called a...
Curated OER
Human Development
Three-dimensional animation zooms in on human development as it begins in the female ovaries. The animated egg changes and forms as you watch it travel down the fallopian tube into the uterus.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Biointeractive: Stem Cells: Differentiation and the Fate of Cells
See how the three germ layers in early embryonic development eventually lead to the formation of major human organs. [1:29]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Early Development: Three Germ Layers: Lesson 2
This lesson will identify the three germ layers that form in an early embryo and the tissues and organs that develop from them. It is 2 of 5 in the series titled "Early Development: Three Germ Layers."
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #16: Animal Development: We're Just Tubes
Hank discusses the process by which organisms grow and develop, maintaining that, in the end, we're all just tubes. [11:32]