TED Talks
TED: The case for engineering our food | Pamela Ronald
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Pamela Ronald studies the genes that make plants more resistant to disease and stress. In an eye-opening talk, she...
Food Farmer Earth
GMOs - An Invention In Search Of A Necessity
It has been said, we have taken culture out of agriculture and replaced it with agribusiness. The larger point is that our industrial food system is harming our bodies and polluting our air, waterways and land. Claire Hope Cummings,...
Curated Video
GM Crops
GM stands for genetically modified. So, GM crops are plants grown for food whose genes have been altered using genetic engineering. In some cases, the genes of other organisms have been inserted into the genome of the crop plant to...
Food Farmer Earth
A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings - Reimagining a Sustainable Food System
From the archives: journalist, environmentalist and author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, Claire Hope Cummings speaks out on behalf of the natural world. Cummings argues for a radical new approach to...
Food Farmer Earth
Coming Up With the Right Way Forward In Uncertain Times
In this final 4-part series, Claire Hope Cummings shares her honest doubts about the fate of the earth. In referring to her book (Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds), Cummings draws from other indigenous...
Curated Video
Debate: Are Genetically Modified Animals Safe to Eat?
A team of scientists has genetically engineered pigs to be resistant to a widespread disease. Science can engineer an animal’s DNA to introduce desirable traits and get rid of negative traits or sickness. These pigs are not being raised...
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food
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World Science Festival
CRISPR in Context: The New World of Human Genetic Engineering
It’s happened. The first children genetically engineered with the powerful DNA-editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9 have been born to a woman in China. Their altered genes will be passed to their children, and their children’s children. Join...
Curated Video
GM Crops | Genetics | Biology | FuseSchool
GM Crops | Genetics | Biology | FuseSchool GM stands for genetically modified. So, GM crops are plants grown for food whose genes have been altered using genetic engineering. In some cases, the genes of other organisms have been inserted...
Curated Video
What are GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms)?
GMO or genetically modified organisms are organisms with their DNA modified, usually by adding new or different DNA from another organism. GM crops are crops that have genes from bacteria. These genes allow the plants to either produce...
TED Talks
TED: How humans could evolve to survive in space | Lisa Nip
If we hope to one day leave Earth and explore the universe, our bodies are going to have to get a lot better at surviving the harsh conditions of space. Using synthetic biology, Lisa Nip hopes to harness special powers from microbes on...
Curated Video
Selective Breeding
Selective breeding is also known as artificial selection. It is the process by which humans breed plants and animals for particular genetic characteristics. We have been doing this for thousands of years - ever since we first bred food...
Food Farmer Earth
Can Organic Agriculture Feed The World - Fred Kirs
One of the bedrock tenets for supporters of our industrial agriculture system — monocrop farming, large scale livestock production, reliance upon chemical fertilizers, genetic engineering and pesticides, etc.— how else are we to feed the...
Science360
Even healthy corals have viruses - Science Nation
Corals are important ecosystem engineers, providing habitat and nutrient recycling to tropical reefs. However, coral species' richness and abundance are in decline worldwide, due in large part to the impacts from global industrialization...
Curated Video
Should We Be Worried About GMOs? - Glad You Asked S1 (E10)
At the current rate, we'll have to grow as much food in the next 30 years as we have in all of human history. And many experts argue that to do that, we’ll have to engineer the genes of our food. But the concern surrounding whether we...
Curated Video
Selective Breeding | Evolution | Biology | FuseSchool
Selective Breeding | Evolution | Biology | FuseSchool Selective breeding is also known as artificial selection. It is the process by which humans breed plants and animals for particular genetic characteristics. We have been doing this...
TED Talks
TED: How digital DNA could help you make better health choices | Jun Wang
What if you could know exactly how food or medication would impact your health -- before you put it in your body? Genomics researcher Jun Wang is working to develop digital doppelgangers for real people; they start with genetic code, but...
TED Talks
TED: The brain science of obesity | Mads Tang-Christensen
Your belly and your brain speak to each other, says obesity researcher Mads Tang-Christensen. Offering scientific proof that obesity is a disease influenced by genetics and the environment, he introduces a molecule discovered in both the...
Independent Producers
Using DNA to Catch Poachers
Game wardens in California are now using DNA fingerprinting analysis to help protect illegal poaching of wildlife. There are many species, from large game to shellfish, which are being illegally caught or killed for food. Since there are...
Crash Course
Changing the Blueprints of Life - Genetic Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #38
A presentation of how engineering based in making something better led to engineering genetics. Scholars learn that genetic engineering began by selectively breeding plants that had specific characteristics to improve them. The video...
PBS
Next Meal: Engineering Food
Are genetically engineered foods risky or beneficial overall? The video, part of the PBS food science series, explores the debate from a scientific perspective. It explains the history of genetic modification, the benefits, and the...
TED-Ed
What's Wrong with Our Food System
11-year-old Birke Baehr describes what he calls "the dark side of the industrialized food system". Explaining everything from genetically engineered seeds and organisms to Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), Baehr encourages his...
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering and Our Food
In many households across the country, GMOs are a big no-no. Is our mistrust of genetically-engineered food misguided? Biology scholars examine the facts with an animated video from the Kurzgesagt playlist. Topics include the history of...
Crash Course
Mass-Producing Ice Cream with Food Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #39
Learning about ice cream is a real treat. The 39th installment of the Crash Course Engineering playlist looks at the production of ice cream. From using centrifuges to make cream and mixing the ingredients to pasteurizing the finished...