Bloomberg
Why Invest in Moonshots?
July 13 -- Andrew Hessel, distinguished research scientist at Autodesk, and Ethan Kurzweil, a Bessemer Venture Partners partner, discuss investing in moonshots with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg West."
Bloomberg
How Genetic Engineering Tool Crispr Could Change Humanity
June 1 -- Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, or Crispr, is a new genetic engineering tool that allows scientists to easily move around the genes of any living creature. In this episode of Sooner Than You Think,...
Curated OER
Genetics 101 Part 2: What are SNPs?
If humans share over 99% of the same chromosomes, how are we different? There are 10 million SNPs in the human genome, accounting for most of our genetic differences. Watch this short clip to introduce your learners to SNPs, or single...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Bio Interactive: Birth and Death of Genes
Classroom resources paired with a thirteen-minute video highlight how scientists discovered the evolutionary history of an Antarctic icefish by studying its genome.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Human Genome Project
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]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Who Owns the Genome?
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" examines the social and ethical implications of genome research. [4 min, 8 sec]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Publishing Genome Research
Watch how NJ high school students apply basic principles of molecular biology to solve real research probloms and publish their own genome research at GenBank, the international genomic sequence database. [6:12]
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Science Behind the News: Tomato Decoded
Scientists from fourteen countries work together to decode the genetic make-up of the tomato. They want to learn which genes control which characteristics, such as flavour, shape, colour, nutritional values, etc. The video looks at the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Heredity and Genetics: Genetics 101 Part 2: What Are Sn Ps?
Learn about the variations in human DNA called SNPs, and how they can be used to understand relationships between people. [2:01]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Science Diction: Genome
In our monthly series on the words of science, we'll talk about how the word 'genome' came to be.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Dna Sequencing: Lesson 3
This lesson will introduce the concept of DNA sequencing as well as discuss the Human Genome Project. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "DNA Sequencing."
California Academy of Sciences
California Academy of Sciences: The Center for Comparative Genomics
Take a peek into the Academy's Center for Comparative Genomics with the lab's director, Brian Simison. Learn how cutting-edge technology is changing the way our scientists work.