Beer goes in, pee comes out. It's a simple equation, right? In today's SciShow Quick Questions, Hank goes a little deeper to find out why beer makes you pee!

Hank fills us in on the endocrine system - the system of glands which produce and secrete different types of hormones directly into the bloodstream to regulate the body's growth, metabolism, and sexual development & function.

Paul Andersen explains how organisms regulate their internal osmolarity or not. He starts with a brief description of osmosis and why it is important for animal cell to be surrounded by an isotonic solution. He then explains how...

Hank takes us on the fascinating journey through our excretory system to learn how our kidneys make pee.

You put a dying person in suspended animation until, possibly thousands of years from now, medical science is able to cure them... or their brain can be put in a sweet robot body. It's an age-old sci-fi trope, but there are scientists...

The biggest kidney stone on record weighed more than a kilogram and was 17 centimeters in diameter. The patient didn't actually swallow a stone the size of a coconut; kidney stones form inside the body. So how do they grow in the first...

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Paul Andersen explains how organs work together to form organ systems and how organ systems work together to form organisms. The kidney and bladder work together to filter blood in the excretory system. The circulatory and respiratory...

An ethically questionable new genetic technique attempts to grow human organs inside of pigs.

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Although kidneys are clearly important for survival, they are not essential, and this is particularly true if only one kidney is present. Some people are born without one of their kidneys, a condition called renal agenesis. Some other...

Microscopic structures in the kidney that filter blood and produce urine.
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This video highlights the groundbreaking research conducted by Doctor Richard Paulson and Professor Nick Wright at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London. They have discovered that male cells can be found in transplanted kidneys...

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Kidney

In this video, Justin from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses how the body regulates hydration levels, as well as what happens when the body becomes dehydrated.

In this video, Jonathan from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses the significance of the kidneys. You will likely be surprised by the many functions these most valuable organs perform, such as balancing water and electrolytes,...

In this video, Justin from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses how cranberries and foods such as asparagus affect urine. He also discusses what the various colors of urine mean in regards to health and how we produce urine.

This video covers:

- The structure of the kidneys and urinary s
ystem
- The structure of t
he nephron
- How filtrate is filtered from the glomerulus to the B
owman's capsule
- Which substances are reabsorbed from...

This video covers:<br/>
- What happens when the kidneys stop working (kidn<br/>ey failure)
- How we can<br/> treat kidney failure
- What dialysis<br/> is, and how it cleans the blood
- How a kidneys transplant works

This video covers:

- The 3 main functions of the kidn
eys:
1) removi
ng waste,
2) regulating level
s of ions, and
3) regula
ting levels of water
- How the kidneys can achieve all of this using filtration...

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