Instructional Video25:01
SciShow

Conservation Genomics and Kizmit the Porcupine: SciShow Talk Show

12th - Higher Ed
Brit Garner, host of SciShow Psych, talks about the research she's doing in conservation genetics/genomics, and Jessi from Animal Wonders shows off an African crested porcupine!
Instructional Video5:24
SciShow

How Ancient Viruses Might Have Changed Our Brains

12th - Higher Ed
Recent discoveries about the Arc protein have shown that its function and origin may be even more complicated than scientists originally thought.
Instructional Video25:20
SciShow

Conservation Genomics and Kizmit the Porcupine: SciShow Talk Show

12th - Higher Ed
Brit Garner, host of SciShow Psych, talks about the research she's doing in conservation genetics/genomics, and Jessi from Animal Wonders shows off an African crested porcupine!
Instructional Video4:33
SciShow

3 Genes That Give People Superpowers

12th - Higher Ed
There are genetic mutations in the population today that can grant people some seemingly superhuman abilities.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Alzheimer's Disease

9th - 10th
This video segment from the Secret of Life School Video: "Genetic Medicine: Tinkering with Our Genes" explores the potential for gene therapy to cure diseases like Alzheimer's. [2 min, 48 sec]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Human Genome Project

9th - 10th
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" looks at the meaning and significance of the effort to decode the human genome. [4:08]
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: A New Human Relative, From a Dna Sample?

9th - 10th
Genetic analysis of DNA from a single prehistoric finger bone may point to a new branch of the human family tree.