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What Is Cancer?
What happens to cells for cancerous growths to occur? Your body is made up of millions and millions of cells. In fact there are between 50 and 75 trillion cells in the body. These cells are dying and being replaced all the time. Cancer...
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What Are Proteins
In this video, we are going to discuss the structure and uses of protein molecules. Proteins are long-chain molecules made of strings of amino acids joined together. All amino acids are compounds with a similar basic structure: they have...
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Understanding Proteins
This video provides an overview of the importance of proteins as a nutrient for the human body. The video also discusses the different types of amino acids and how complete proteins contain all 20 different kinds.
Nutrition Basics part...
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Protein in the diet
What we put in to our bodies is important to keep it working! We need to eat a balanced diet, to make sure our body gets everything it needs to carry out its activities. Our diet should include; fatty acids or lipids, carbohydrates,...
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Muscle Function
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...
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The Immune System: Innate Defenses and Adaptive Defenses
There are so many critters out there, bacteria and viruses that want to wreak havoc in our bodies. How do we defend ourselves against such tiny threats? The immune system! This is quite possibly the most profoundly remarkable aspect of...
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Enzymes
Enzymes are really important proteins, that speed up the rates of reactions such as in photosynthesis, respiration and protein synthesis. The enzymes and substrates are always moving, and occasionally they collide at the right speed and...
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What is DNA and How Does it Work?
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a molecule that is often called the blueprint of life. Located in the nucleus, the DNA is a very long molecule with a helix winding structure like a twisted ladder. The rungs of the ladder are made of four...
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The Importance and Hazards of Sulfur
This video explains the properties and uses of sulfur, an element that has been known since ancient times. They discuss its yellow crystal and powder forms, its role in the production of sulfuric acid and fertilizers, its use in cleaning...
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Enzymes: Nature's Factory Workers
What are enzymes? Why they're nature's little factory workers. They chop up certain things! They build up others! Pretty amazing the kind of chemistry nature can do given enormous polypeptide chains with unfathomable variability and...
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Widefield and Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy
We just learned about electron microscopy, so what was the next major innovation in microscopy in the 20th century? That would be fluorescence microscopy, of both the widefield and confocal varieties. How does this work? What is...
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What is Cancer?
Cancer is the ultimate expiration date for biological life. But what is it? How does it occur? Is there anything we can do about it? Let's take a brief look at this incredibly complex issue.
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Biochemist María del Mar Maldonado (Get to Know a Scientist!)
Maria is a biochemist from Puerto Rico! Actually technically she is both a biochemist and a pharmacist, since she has a dual degree called a Pharm.D-PhD. Her research centers around metastatic breast cancer, so let's check out precisely...
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Nutrition, Hydration & Health - Science of NFL Football
"Science of NFL Football" is a 10-part video series funded by the National Science Foundation and produced in partnership with the National Football League. In this segment, NBC's Lester Holt looks at the physically demanding pre-season...
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The Composition and Function of Blood
Of course we all know what blood is, and everyone has had at least a minor injury involving blood. But what is it exactly? What's it made of? What does it do? Why do we die if we lose enough of it? Let's check out each component of blood...
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Protein Structure
Everyone has heard of proteins. What are they on the molecular level? They're polymers of amino acids, of course. They make up most of your body, so we have to understand their structure very well! Check this out to learn the hierarchy...
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Cell Organelles and Functions - Nucleus & Endoplasmic Reticulum
In this online video lecture and tutorial on Cell Biology we will learn about various components of cell like nucleus,cell organelles, endoplasmic reticulum etc. In this session we will learn about: 1) Cell Organelles 2) Cellular...
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Structure of the Cell Membrane - Active and Passive Transport
What is it that separates what's inside a cell from what's outside of a cell? Why, that's the cell membrane. What's it made out of? How does it work? How do molecules get in and out of the cell? These are super-important concepts! Let's...
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Exploring the Digestive and Excretory Systems: the Role of Digestion
This series of videos takes students on a fascinating journey, following food as it travels through the digestive system. Clear animations illustrate the functions of the major digestive and excretory structures. Concepts and terminology...
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Syphilis Treponema pallidum
Syphilis is another infection that is typically caused by sexual contact, thanks to the pathogen Treponema pallidum. What does this bacterium do? How is the infection treated? Let's take a closer look now.
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Biological Molecules
Molecules make you think of chemistry, right? Well, they also are very important in biology too. In this video we are going to look at carbohydrates, proteins and lipids. When I say lipids, I am talking about fats and oils. Life...
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Plasma
What colour is the liquid flowing through your veins, arteries and capillaries? it’s not blue or red. But technically it’s actually yellow.The blood that you see when you cut yourself looks red because it contains millions of red blood...
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The Human Body Major Systems & Organs - The Immune System And Lymphatic System
The human body is a wondrously complex machine made of flesh, bone, muscles, organs, blood vessels and highly specialized systems that function together to sustain life. This fascinating third part of The Human Body series examines the...
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Mycoprotein
Protein is essential for life - we need protein to build muscle tissue, to make enzymes for our metabolic activity, to form the protective layer of our skin, to make DNA… in fact for most processes in our body. There are thought to be...