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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Dengue Virus Life Cycle
In this narrated animation, watch the dengue virus undergo RNA replication and protein transcription as it matures inside a human cell ultimately causing the infectious disease. [4:12]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Dna: Animations
A menu of video animations of DNA replication, transcription, structure, sequencing, and related topics.
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Dna: Sickle Cell Anemia
Find out about the genetic blood disorder, sickle cell anemia, in this short narration. [0:59]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Neuroscience: Development of the Human Embryonic Brain
A narrated animation showing the growth of the human brain during fetal development. [1:40]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Dna Damage and Mutations
A concise overview of what happens when a mutation occurs in our DNA, and how that causes some cancers. [1:06]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: The Geologic Carbon Cycle
A college-level video lecture explaining and discussing the carbon cycle. Gives an interesting perspective on the chemistry of the carbon cycle and how essential it is to the survival of life on Earth. [6:20]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Dna Cloning With Plasmids
Find out about genetic engineering, and how scientists have found a way to insert new genes into bacterial DNA. [1:12]
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Hhmi Biointeractive: Zebrafish Heart Regeneration
A brief video illustration and describing the way te heart of a zebrafish regenerates. [2:30]
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Viral Outbreak: Dengue Fever Re Emergence in the Americas
See how far the dengue fever virus has spread throughout the Americas since the 1960s. [0:24]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Ppar Gamma Activation in the Fat Cell
PPAR-gamma allows patients who are insulin resistant to be insulin sensitive. See how PPAR-gamma works in a fat cell. Teaching tips included. Quicktime and Windows Media Player formats.
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Hhmi: Biointeractive: Location of the Hypothalamus
This video clip shows the location of the hypothalamus in the brain of a mouse. Teaching tips included. Quicktime or Windows Media Player formats. [0:33]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Planarian Regeneration and Stem Cells
Mini-documentary on the use of stem cells for regeneration of damaged cells.
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Controlling Animal Locomotion
A presentation focusing on how different animal moves by examining different gaits. The process of spinal cord interneurons and brain signaling pathways are defined and explained for different animal movements like hopping or galloping....
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Natural Selection Adaptation
Classroom resources paired with a ten-minute video highlight the groundbreaking research of physical and genetic evolutionary changes in rock pocket mouse populations. [10:31]
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Bacterial Quorum Sensing
An explanation of how Vibrio harveyi, a marine bacteria, functions as a signaling molecule that turns on genes that produce bioluminescence.
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Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Retroviruses and Viral Diversity
A concise summary of the main differences between retroviruses and those which use DNA in their genome. A few examples of each type of virus are shown.