TED Fellow and equity bioengineer Erika Moore investigates how cells controlling inflammation behave differently depending on a patient's background. By focusing on the "who" behind the disease, Moore is uncovering why certain diseases...

Autoimmune diseases like lupus disproportionately affect women five to one. Researchers have finally pinpointed a unique silencing gene on the X chromosome that may help explain why.



Women Get More AutoImmune Diseases. Here’s...

The bubonic plague killed so many people in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa that that natural selection event is still rippling through our genomes today. But the same genes that helped your ancestors survive the Black Death...

When you see a black cat, you might think of witches and goth bands, but they're also a great example of a melanistic animal, and they're not the only ones!

When you see a black cat, you might think of witches and goth bands, but they're also a great example of a melanistic animal, and they're not the only ones! Chapters MELANISTIC ANIMAL 0:24 PYGMY GRASSHOPPERS 0:48 BLACK PANTHERS 1:53...

Many seahorse species have males with full-blown pregnancies. But in order to do this, their immune system is missing something kind of important.

"Rock out...live your life....live your art!" This was Brooklyn, New York native Shanelle Gabriel's response to her diagnosis of Lupus, an autoimmune disease where your body's immune system, that usually...

ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries. The views were created by "piecing together more than one million images," according to the European Souther...

Let's Learn the fingers in French with this cartoon Video from The Little Muslim in a fun and unique way with our cute characters.



This video will make your kids laugh and smile while teaching the names of the fingers:...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE; which we call simply Lupus) is a chronic autoimmune condition involving multisystem inflammation. The etiology of lupus is unknown; however, the pathophysiology of lupus involves production of...

Jennifer Lerner’s work helps world leaders and other public officials, including members of NATO, understand the effects of social and emotional factors on judgment and decision making. She is the director of the Harvard Decision Science...

Simulations of young stellar systems suggest that planets embedded in a circumstellar disk can produce many distinctive structures, including rings, gaps and spiral arms. This video compares computer simulations of hypothetical...

In this live-action program viewers will learn that an autoimmune disease occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. Students will come to understand that special cells called regulatory T cells...