TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What happens if an engineered virus escapes the lab? | TED-Ed
Since the 1970s, researchers have engineered superbugs. While this research could help us prepare for future outbreaks, the stakes of this work are extremely high: if even one dangerous virus escaped a lab, it could cause a global...
TED Talks
TED: A virus-resistant organism -- and what it could mean for the future | Jason W. Chin
What if we could use the power of DNA to create a sustainable, circular economy? In a talk about breakthrough science, synthetic biologist Jason W. Chin describes his team's work rewriting the genetic blueprint of cells to create a...
PBS
AIDS deaths surge in Russia as global health officials say, 'They did it all wrong'
Central Asia and Eastern Europe have the world's fastest growing HIV epidemic, and Russia accounts for more than 80 percent of those infections. As at-risk groups like injection drug users are stigmatized and ignored, health officials...
PBS
How Rwanda, once torn by genocide, became a global anti-AIDS leader
Rwanda emerged from its genocide in 1994 to build one of the most successful AIDS responses in Africa and is now working mightily to halt mother-to-child HIV transmissions. They're doing it with a creative mix of science, technology and...
PBS
Why a Kenyan island might teach the world how to beat AIDS
A massive HIV test-and-treat study is underway in Kenya and Uganda. Migratory men in the fishing industry there have been hit especially hard, and researchers are trying creative ways to encourage them to get tested. William Brangham...
PBS
Why Nigeria has more HIV-positive infants than anywhere else
Preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission is considered one of the most basic goals for curtailing the AIDS epidemic, and Nigeria is struggling mightily. In our series The End of AIDS, William Brangham and Jason Kane examine why this...
PBS
Why Miami is the epicenter of new HIV cases in the U.S.
The tourist mecca of Miami is also a hotbed of HIV transmission. While city and state officials have launched an ambitious plan to tackle the crisis, William Brangham and Jason Kane join Jon Cohen of Science magazine to look at how and...
PBS
1 million Russians are HIV-positive, but only a third get treatment
Russia's HIV epidemic is growing by 10 percent per year, and yet many proven HIV prevention and treatment strategies aren't being used. William Brangham and Jason Kane report in collaboration with Jon Cohen of Science Magazine and the...
PBS
What Dr. Fauci wants you to know about face masks and staying home as virus spreads
As COVID-19 spreads across the country, there has been some debate over the need for government stay-at-home orders, whether Americans should be wearing masks in public and how the coronavirus spreads. Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National...
PBS
At Greek Refugee Camp, There Are Few Defenses Against Covid-19 Threat
Human rights activists and medical nonprofits are calling on the Greek government to evacuate overcrowded refugee camps on islands in the Aegean Sea, where an outbreak of COVID-19 would likely cause humanitarian catastrophe. Concerns are...
PBS
Shutdown Of U.S.-Mexico Border Leaves Migrants In Limbo And In Danger
President Trump recently announced strict new border controls, citing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. Officials will now turn away most migrants entering the country from the U.S.-Mexico border -- including people coming legally...
PBS
Murder, extortion and corruption in Acapulco
2017 marked Acapulco's fifth straight year of being Mexico's most murderous
city. Once an internationally renowned tropical paradise, violence has shot
up over the last decade. But while police and military forces protect
tourists,...
PBS
Grieving Northern Italians Mount Campaign To Investigate Officials’ Pandemic Response
Italy was hit hard by COVID-19 early in the pandemic. Now, prosecutors have begun an investigation into whether the failure to lock down two towns near the northern city of Bergamo contributed to thousands of deaths related to the...
PBS
Britain Cautiously Plans To Ease Rigid Lockdown Restrictions
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a cautious timetable
ending the country's COVID lockdown, one of the strictest in the world with
almost all foreign travel outlawed under the guidelines. But the full
lockdown isn’t...
PBS
NIH's Francis Collins On How Americans Can Take Responsibility Amid Spreading Virus
Coronavirus is spreading across the United States more widely than it did in previous waves. U.S. hospitalizations rose 40 percent in the past month and increased across 38 states during the past week. The country saw more than 75,000...
PBS
Even With A Vaccine, COVID-19 Will Last For Years, Expert Says
While Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health and other
health experts are hopeful vaccines will make a real difference in managing
COVID-19, some of the pandemic's challenges are likely to persist for a
long time. Dr....
PBS
Bob Woodward: This Is Among 'The Saddest, Most Disturbing Chapters In American History'
Recent reporting from veteran journalist Bob Woodward of The Washington Post created political shockwaves. Woodward’s newest book, “Rage,” features18 on-the-record interviews and recordings of President Trump talking about topics from...
PBS
The Connection Between Cold Weather And Catching A Cold
New research suggests that cold weather may actually affect the human body's immune response, making us more susceptible to colds, flus and other upper respiratory infections. Dr. Benjamin Bleier, a sinus specialist at Mass Eye and Ear...
PBS
How S. Africa, the nation hardest hit by HIV, plans to end AIDS
Nearly one in five people infected with HIV globally lives in South Africa, and only half of those individuals are on treatment. But the nation has made major strides against the virus in recent years and now is aggressively moving to...
PBS
British Garment Factories Come Under New Scrutiny Due To Pandemic
The British city of Leicester has spent more than two months as the United Kingdom’s most notorious coronavirus hot spot. Its problems originally sprang from a district that houses garment factories -- where some unscrupulous owners have...
PBS
Isolation and stigma sustain HIV in the South: 'It's like we're on a deserted island'
In the rural South, poverty, prejudice and lack of health care are exacerbating the spread of HIV, making it the epicenter of HIV/AIDS in America. William Brangham and Jason Kane, along with Jon Cohen of Science magazine, meet some who...
PBS
Asian Americans Report Rise In Racist Attacks Amid Pandemic
As coronavirus has spread across the U.S., so have reports of violence against people of Asian descent, and the FBI warns a surge in hate crimes could be yet to come. These fears have led to the creation of a website for reporting such...
SciShow
Engrams Where Your Brain Keeps Memories
A memory isn’t stored in your brain in a neat little package, but is instead spread across a pattern of cells in different regions. What's more, understanding this process could open the door to better treatments for conditions like...
SciShow
How to Fight COVID-19... with a Virus
When it comes to fighting COVID-19, scientists are throwing every bit of science we’ve got at it. A creative technique some researchers are looking into involves using gene therapy to fight this virus with… another virus!