Curated Video
Fleas!
Jessi talks about fleas! What are they? How do you prevent them in your home? How do you deal with them once they've entered your home or become established on an animal?
Curated Video
4 Common Zoonotic Diseases
Jessi has an univited guest join her on screen while she talks about the gross things that your pets can share with you. *Jessi was on a medication that weakened her immune system which allowed the ring worm to form. No worries, it did...
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Rotifera Part 3: Subclade Acanthocephala (Parasitic Spiny-Headed Worms)
It's time to wrap things up with Rotifera by looking at the parasitic Acanthocephalans. These are spiny-headed worms that are obligate endoparasites. Which species do they parasitize? What is their morphology? Let's get a closer look!
Curated Video
RNA as a Parasite
Renowned polymath Freeman Dyson (Institute for Advanced Study) gives his take on the origin of life.
Neuro Transmissions
How cats manipulate your brain with parasites
The archetype of the crazy cat lady is embedded in our culture. You know the type. But could your cats actually cause that kind of behavior? Perhaps a parasite taking over your brain? Even if you don't think it can control your mind, it...
Next Animation Studio
Chagas disease posts lifelong threat of heart failure
Chagas disease is a potentially life-threatening illness transmitted by the kissing bug, which carries the protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi. It is mostly found in Central and South America. It is estimated that it infects as many as...
AllTime 10s
Will Gaming Become An Olympic Sport? - 10 Amazing News Stories You Missed This Week
This week it has been announced that E-Sports is becoming an official sport at the Asian Games! Could the Olympics be next?
Next Animation Studio
World’s first malaria vaccine introduced in Africa
The World Health Organization has implemented a large-scale malaria vaccine pilot program for 360,000 children across Africa.
Brave Wilderness
Will I Get Worms? - Eating Parasites
In this segment of On Location, Coyote and the crew learn all about Nematodes! While visiting Dr. Patricia Stock’s lab at the University of Arizona the crew was able to witness how these small parasitic worms could become an...
Next Animation Studio
Gene that makes some soybean plants resistant to major parasite identified
Scientists have identified a gene that makes some soybean plants resistant to the cyst nematode, a parasite that causes the most economic damage to the soybean industry in the US, according to a paper published in the journal Nature....
Brave Wilderness
Removing a Face Parasite!
If you don’t already have a skincare routine, it might be time to pick one up, because once you see this… you can’t unsee it. This week, Mark and Dr. Hunter Hines, a Microbial Ecologist, are getting face-to-face with face parasites....
Brave Wilderness
WILL IT BITE?! - Giant Bloodsucking Parasite!
Sea Lamprey... and then tests out if they will bite! Watch as Mario places the Sea Lamprey on Coyote's body to see if these giant bloodsucking parasites will take a bite. Get ready to watch the strong suction power of the Sea Lamprey!
Science360
Researchers virtually unwrap a 1500-year-old scroll-NSF Science Now 36
In this week's episode we discover a protein that could someday eliminate malaria, lear about microbes battling it out in Antarctica, explore super Wi-Fi that uses UHF channels and virtually unwrap a 1500-year-old scroll.
After Skool
Toxoplasma - The Parasite That Turns FEAR Into DESIRE
Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite and as a parasite, its goal is to reproduce and affect more and more hosts. The only place in the entire world that toxoplasma can find a mate and sexually reproduce is in the gut of a...
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - The Deadly Sleep
Sleeping sickness is one of the most deadly of the forgotten diseases. Experts thought it had been destroyed decades ago. But it's back with a vengeance and now mobile field teams are out in the bush carrying out blood tests and lumber...
Curated Video
Toxoplasmosis: Can Your Cat Make You Go Crazy?
Toxoplasma gondii, is a unicellular parasite that changes the behavior of its host! A 2002 study showed that people who had toxoplasmosis got into more car accidents than uninfected people. Later research, in rats (another host) and...
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.
SWPictures
SURVIVOR'S GUIDE - Ethiopia & Bednets
Malaria is primarily a disease of the young and of the poor, many of them children who live in remote areas with no easy access to health services. Most malarial deaths in Africa are among children. Nearly 3,000 die each day. But the use...
SWPictures
Genetically Modified Flies to Combat Sleeping Sickness
The video discusses the efforts of scientists in Antwerp to genetically modify the tsetse fly in order to combat the spread of sleeping sickness. By using a bacterium that lives inside the fly, the scientists can create a tiny protein...
Next Animation Studio
Tapeworms in ants keep hosts young for the strangest reason
Researchers from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz studied T. nylanderi ants that were infected with A. brevis tapeworms and found that the infected ants lived longer.
Curated Video
Animal Essential Functions
This live-action video program is about the term "animal essential functions". The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term "animal essential functions" through use of video...
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - The Deadly Trematodes
Trematodes are tiny parasites that live for years in the liver, lungs and even the brains of at least 40 million worldwide. People get infected by eating freshwater fish and shellfish - and it's very hard to detect and cure. Millions of...
Healthcare Triage
A Vaccine for Malaria!
Malaria kills a lot of people every year, and many of those people are young children. Developing a vaccine against this deadly disease has been a long and difficult journey, but there’s been a breakthrough! While we are still working...