Professor Dave Explains
The Antibiotics Revolution Part 2: Penicillins and Cephalosporins
We just finished learning about how the antibiotics revolution got started, with the sulfa drugs. Now let's move on to the classes of antibiotics that were discovered in the middle of the 20th century, the penicillins and the...
Crash Course
Medicinal Chemistry and Penicillin Total Synthesis: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
These days, we don't have to worry too much about meeting an early demise from ulcers, breaks in the stomach lining that could be fatal back in the early 1900s. This is because we have medicines to treat them, like proton pump...
Curated Video
Exploring the World of Antibiotics: The Discovery of Penicillin
This video explores the discovery of penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928, highlighting its importance as one of the earliest and most widely used antibiotics derived from the Penicillium mold fungus. It delves into the natural...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The accident that changed the world - Allison Ramsey and Mary Staicu
In 1928, scientist Alexander Fleming returned to his lab and found something unexpected: a colony of mold growing on a Petri dish he’d forgotten to place in his incubator. And around this colony of mold was a zone completely and...
SciShow
Attack of the Super Bugs
Don't panic! But you should really know about antibiotic-resistant bacteria, aka super bugs. They're here, and they're doing very well, thank you. SciShow explains what they are, how they're getting around our best drugs, and what...
Curated Video
The Role of Plants in the Development of Modern Medicine
This video discusses how certain plants have been used for thousands of years to treat certain ailments and how, through modern technology, these active ingredients have been extracted to create drugs. It highlights various examples such...
Curated Video
Antibiotics
Antibiotics… one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century. You’ve probably taken them at some point during your life… maybe for a throat or ear infection? About 20 doses of antibiotics are prescribed per 1,000 people every day...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Mycology
Mushrooms are some of the most fascinating organisms on the planet. But what are they exactly? Are they plants? No! In fact, they are extremely different from plants. They belong in their own kingdom, called the Fungi kingdom. What else...
Curated Video
Carboxylic Acid Derivatives - Interconversion & Organometallics: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
We get it, learning so many different organic reactions is probably giving you a headache, but hopefully this episode can help! We’re getting even deeper into carboxylic acid derivatives, some of which are used in common headache...
Curated Video
Retrosynthesis and Liquid-Liquid Extraction: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
As we construct more complex organic molecules, it can start to feel like decrypting a complex code. Organic synthesis takes simple starting materials, and turns them into complex structures, and reverse engineering can help us figure...
Curated Video
Biomedicine: Crash Course History of Science
The history of science up until the Cold War is often overshadowed by the Manhattan Project. But, today we are going to talk about advances in biomedicine, or healthcare based on a biological understanding of human bodies and diseases.
Step Back History
Did Medieval Anglo-Saxons Cure MRSA?
The world is at the verge of a crisis, where the antibiotics we used to treat infections for decades are becoming useless. It takes a historian and a microbiologist to possibly save the day.
Curated Video
Scientific Discoveries
In this video we'll discuss how some of the accidental scientific discoveries have been made. So essentially, scientists are very curious people that want to find out how the world works, they are always asking questions. Sometimes they...
Curated Video
BIOLOGY - Careers - Scientific Inquiry
In this video, you'll learn a wide range of marvelous careers in the world of Biology, you might be surprised on what you see!
Amoeba Sisters
Protists and Fungi
Get introduced to protists and fungi with the Amoeba Sisters! This video explores basic cell type, mode of feeding, habitat examples, and ecology of both protists and fungi. This video also mentions a few examples of how protists and...
SciShow
10 Fantastic Fungi Superpowers
Join Hank Green to learn ten weird, scary, and amazing things fungi can do! Chapters MAKE YOU HALLUCINATE 0:50 psychotherapy 1:43 Claviceps purpurea Credit: Dominique Jacquin 2:08 SALEM WITCH TRIALS 2:39 2 MAY CAUSE MASS HYSTERIA 2:49...
TED-Ed
The Accident that Changed the World
Penicillin transformed medicine; however, its discovery was totally serendipitous! Find out how an open window, a sight breeze, and a forgotten petri dish changed the world.