JJ Medicine
Sickle Cell Disease | Pathophysiology, Symptoms and Treatment
Lesson on sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease is a group of heritable blood disorders with characteristic sickle-cell shaped red blood cells. Sickle cell disease leads to chronic, compensated hemolytic anemia with vaso-occlusion...
Curated Video
Disorders of Red Blood Cells - Anemia Problems
Erythrocytes a.k.a. Red Blood Cells help us transport oxygen throughout the body. But what happens when they don’t work the way they should? Let's find out.
Seeker
What Is Sickle Cell Anemia and How Do You Get It?
This complicated blood disorder affects people from many backgrounds and walks of life, famously including 1 in 400 African-Americans. But how did we discover it in the first place? What Does Bone Marrow Actually Do? -...
Visual Learning Systems
Genetics in Action: Genetic Disorders
This video builds on the genetic work of Mendel and takes the student through additional genetic discoveries made in the twentieth century. The Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment are plainly illustrated. The notions...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Sickle Cell Anemia
The most common blood disorder in the United States, sickle cell impacts more than 70,000 Americans. Understanding the genetic coding that leads to this disease might one day help scientists prevent it altogether. Using a promising...
FuseSchool
Mutations and Natural Selection
Mutations have a bad reputation ... but are they always harmful? Junior geneticists explore mutations and their effects in a Fuse School Evolution video. The content features sickle cell disease, its effects on the body, and its ability...
Bozeman Science
Cellular Variation
Variety truly is the spice of life. A video explores how plants have both chlorophyll a and b and the benefits of possessing both, how varying molecules allows for winter wheat, how possessing the heterozygous combination of sickle-cell...
TED-Ed
How This Disease Changes the Shape of Your Cells
Just what exactly is sickle cell disease? A short, animated video explains how the cell adaption works, how inheriting the sickle cell trait can be an advantage in malaria-prone areas, and how sickle cell disease can be deadly.
Amoeba Sisters
Mutations: The Potential Power of a Small Change
Are the only mutants you know Ninja Turtles or X-Men? The video explains both gene mutation and chromosome mutation. It includes the subtypes of mutations for each major type, the times when mutations are more likely to happen, and the...