Curated Video
Surveying Traits
Dr. Forrester discusses that we are all unique due to the traits that we inherit. She describes the two different types of genes, which are dominant and recessive, and how these genes are responsible for our unique looks.
Curated Video
The "Explorer Gene"?
UC Berkeley psychologist Stephen Hinshaw relates how ADHD might be better interpreted within a broader context of human genetic diversity, recognizing that the recent increases in cases is likely linked to our modern preoccupation with...
Curated Video
Transferring Traits
“Transferring Traits” introduces the concepts of heredity and genetic traits, with a focus on Gregor Mendel’s pioneering work in the field of genetics.
Nature League
Can We Domesticate Opossums?
This week on Nature League, Brit explores the incredible process of domestication and answers Adrian's question about keeping a house opossum.
Nature League
What Can Tortoises Teach Us About Aging?
This week on Nature League, Brit Garner explores aging and lifespan mysteries of life on Earth by breaking down a recent scientific journal article about giant tortoises.
Curated Video
Sapolskys Theorie - Wie die Evolution unser Verhalten beeinflusst
Sapolskys Theorie der menschlichen Verhaltensbiologie besagt, dass hinter jedem Verhalten ein biologischer Prozess steht, der das Produkt der natürlichen Selektion ist. Wenn Sapolsky recht hat, bedeutet dies, dass wir, um menschliches...
Curated Video
Can a person feel no pain? (Congenital insensitivity to pain: CIP)
Can a person feel no Pain? congenital insensitivity to pain or CIP- which is also known as congenital analgesia, is a condition where the patient cannot feel any physical pain. An Animation about Congenital Insensitivity to Pain. A rare...
Professor Dave Explains
Research Methods of Biopsychology
With some information regarding the organization of neurons and neural pathways, we are ready to start getting into some deeper topics. But before we do that, it will be useful to get a general sense of precisely how we learn about the...
Curated Video
Introduction to Genetic Engineering and its Uses
This video is a lecture presentation on the process of genetic engineering. The presenter describes and discusses the steps involved in modifying the genome of a bacterium cell, and then evaluates some of the uses and...
FuseSchool
Sweaty T-shirts
Have you heard the expression “they had chemistry”? Well, when it comes to sexual attraction that expression is a fairly accurate way of explaining what’s going on. Not in the sense of a romantic Bunsen burner lit dinner, but because of...
Professor Dave Explains
Plant Biologist Molly Edwards (Get to Know a Scientist!)
Do you love flowers? What would it be like to study flowers for a living? Let plant biologist Molly Edwards tell you all about it! She works at Harvard University, studying some really neat plant species with fascinating flower petals,...
Visual Learning Systems
Fundamentals of Genetics: Summing Up
In this program Mendel's work is explored in greater detail by using probability to make predictions of the inheritance of specific traits. The use of the Punnett Square is illustrated through easy-to-understand animations. Other...
Visual Learning Systems
Genetics in Our Lives: Aspects of Genetic Engineering
This exciting program takes a glimpse at some of the amazing advances in modern genetics. Starting with the discovery of DNA, students will be exposed to advances such as the creation of recombinant DNA, vaccines, the human genome...
Healthcare Triage
Human Genes in Monkeys? We Don’t Love It.
Scientists have put the human gene MCPH1 (which plays a role in brain development) into monkey embryos through a virus that contained the gene. Sounds like a movie, right?
Science360
What is the future of synthetic biology?
What is the future of synthetic biology? Zan Luthey-Schulten, co-director at the Center for the Physics of Living Cells, answers the question on this edition of Ask a Scientist.
Visual Learning Systems
Genetics in Action: Summing Up
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...
Cerebellum
The Human Body Major Systems & Organs - Genetics And The Digestive 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...
Curated Video
Genetic Engineering: Insulin Production Process
The video explains the process of genetic engineering using the example of insulin production. The video explains the various steps involved in isolating the required gene using enzymes and preparing an appropriate vector for the gene....
The Wall Street Journal
Four Crispr Scientists on the Future of Gene-Editing
Trained in the labs of Crispr inventors and pioneers, Janice Chen, Nicole Gaudelli, Omar Abudayyeh and Jonathan Gootenberg discuss the gene-editing trials they are working on, with the goal of drastically changing our understanding of...
Science360
Fluorescent Fruit Flies Shed New Light - Science Nation
Syracuse University biologists are now able to study previously unobservable events tied to sexual selection. That's because they were able to genetically alter fruit flies so that the heads of their sperm were fluorescent green or red....
Science360
Fluorescent Fruit Flies Shed New Light
Syracuse University biologists are now able to study previously unobservable events tied to sexual selection. That's because they were able to genetically alter fruit flies so that the heads of their sperm were fluorescent green or red....
ShortCutsTv
Foetal Susceptibility and the Dutch Winter Famine
Obesity and the health problems it brings with has long been seen as a product of genetic predisposition and bad life style choices. But the foetal susceptibility hypothesis introduces another cause, the nourishment an embryo receives...
Science360
Lizard species diverging to survive
Towering gypsum dunes span hundreds of square miles in New Mexico's White Sands National Monument, the largest gypsum dune field in the world. Hundreds of animal species thrive in this unique ecosystem, but it's the lizards, in...
Visual Learning Systems
Genetics in Action: Video Quiz
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...