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00:12:00

‘Witch Weed’ – breaking the spell

by Various
‘Witch Weed’ – breaking the spell
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 9 years ago | 2780 views
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Striga (witchweed) is a parasitic weed that seriously constrains the productivity of staples such as maize, sorghum, millet and upland rice on some farms in Uganda.  Kilimo Trust supported this initiative to try and control its spread.

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00:14:00

A biochemist investigating Parkinson’s Disease

by Birgit Liss
A biochemist investigating Parkinson’s Disease
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2010 views
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Dr Liss investigates Parkinson's disease with genetics

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01:12:00

A Worm’s Tale: Secrets of Inheritance and Immortality

by Craig Mello
A Worm’s Tale: Secrets of Inheritance and Immortality
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1783 views
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Intracellular synthesis is immensely fast and complex.

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00:10:00

Anti-oxidants

by Ryan Hill
Anti-oxidants
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1830 views
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Anti-oxidants and their importance in diet

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01:10:00

Bacterial cell walls, antibiotics and the origins of life

by Jeff Errington
Bacterial cell walls, antibiotics and the origins of life
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1247 views
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The cell wall is a crucial structure found in almost all bacteria. It is the target for our best antibiotics and fragments of the wall trigger powerful innate immune responses against infection. Surprisingly, many bacteria can switch almost effortl....

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00:11:00

Body Fuel for Long Distances

by Sarah Purcell
Body Fuel for Long Distances
for 14-19 and upwards,
Undergraduate presentations | 14-19 and upwards | 13 years ago | 1644 views
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In my geoset project I will be discussing the effects of nutrition in long distance endurance. Topics include saturating carbohydrate stores before a race, the Krebs (citric acid) cycle, the effects of dehydration and hyponatremia, and replenishing y....

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00:05:00

Can the wheat which grows in dry areas solve the food crisis?

by Chiho Motokawa
Can the wheat which grows in dry areas solve the food crisis?
for 14-19 and upwards,
Highschool presentations | 14-19 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1571 views
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Chiho describes her important work in looking for varieties of wheat which could help increase food production in arid areas.

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00:07:00

Cape Gannets

by Sarah Merrel
Cape Gannets
for 14-19 and upwards,
Undergraduate presentations | 14-19 and upwards | 13 years ago | 2011 views
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Study on Cape Gannets, a new prey for quickly adapting Great White Pelicans on Malgas Island, South Africa. First observed in 2008. Result of indirect human involvement; Cape Gannets should be reconsidered for conservation management.

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00:29:00

Cloning

by Various Presenters
Cloning
for 14-19 and upwards,
Discussions | 14-19 and upwards | 11 years ago | 14939 views
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Why is cloning such hot science? What are the potential benefits? And are there other ways of achieving them? What are stem cells, and why do many scientists say that embryonic cells are required for this work?

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01:04:00

Cloning, stem cells and regenerative medicine

by Ian Wilmut
Cloning, stem cells and regenerative medicine
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 13 years ago | 1200 views
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Extraordinary opportunities to study the molecular mechanisms that cause inherited diseases are being provided by new methods of producing stem cells. Hear about not only the potential value of these new methods, but also how their development was pr....

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01:14:00

Cuckoos and their victims

by Nick Davies
Cuckoos and their victims
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1305 views
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The sight of a little warbler feeding an enormous cuckoo chick has astonished observers since ancient times. It was once thought that cuckoos were unable to raise their own young because of defective anatomy and behaviour, and so other birds were onl....

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00:09:00

Curing Cancer with Bubbles – Fact or Fiction?

by Vanessa Hearden
Curing Cancer with Bubbles – Fact or Fiction?
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1389 views
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Anti-cancer drug delivery with polymer bubbles.

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01:12:00

Darwin’s Four Great Books

by Edward Wilson
Darwin’s Four Great Books
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1797 views
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A lecture given as part of the Origins 09 series at Florida State University to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'. Now in his 80th year, Alabama-born Edward Osborne (E.O.) Wilson has long enjoyed a reputation as ....

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00:04:00

David Attenborough on Darwin – Part 1

by David Attenborough
David Attenborough on Darwin – Part 1
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 2245 views
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British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough presents his views on Charles Darwin, natural selection, and how the Bible has put the natural world in peril in an exclusive interview for Nature Video.

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00:33:00

Deep sea discoveries

by Jason Hall-Spencer
Deep sea discoveries
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 3370 views
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Recent underwater images show that the deep sea realm of the British Isles is nothing like the monotonous expanse of mud that many people imagine. Spectacular coral reefs, once thought to be restricted to the tropics, are now known to occur in the ch....

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00:05:00

Edmond Fischer

by Edmond Fischer
Edmond Fischer
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1984 views
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Winner of the Nobel Prize 1992 in Medicine / Physiology together with Edwin G. Krebs 'for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism'

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00:10:00

Effects of high fat diet on bone quality etc.

by Jenna Stevens-Smith
Effects of high fat diet on bone quality etc.
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 13 years ago | 1208 views
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How a high fat diet can have a detrimental effect on our bones

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00:14:00

Entomologist

by Rob Hutchinson
Entomologist
for 14-19 and upwards,
Careers | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 11471 views
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Rob Hutchinson is an entomologist and one of the top mosquito experts in Europe whose work assesses the risk of Malaria returning to UK. He has developed a great interest in mosquito biology and did a masters degree at the School of Tropical Medicine....

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00:16:00

Everything we touch is dirty!

by Ana Lorena Morales Garcia
Everything we touch is dirty!
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 13 years ago | 1713 views
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Is food safe to eat if dropped on the floor for less than 5 seconds?

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00:30:00

Evolution and Creationism

by Adam Rutherford
Evolution and Creationism
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1465 views
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Dr Adam Rutherford investigates the idea that the teaching of evolution is being threatened by a rise in creationism amongst religious students.nRutherford speaks to the former Director of Education at the Royal Society, Reverend Professor Michael Re....

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00:05:00

Fibroblasts and Oesophageal Cancer

by Sam Beckett
Fibroblasts and Oesophageal Cancer
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 11 years ago | 5029 views
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Does the anatomical source of fibroblasts affect their behaviour within a 3D composite model of oesophageal adenocarcinoma invasion?

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00:29:00

Flight in Birds and Aeroplanes

by John Maynard Smith
Flight in Birds and Aeroplanes
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1673 views
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John Maynard Smith, one of our most eminent evolutionary biologists and scientific communicators originally trained as an engineer and spent the war years designing aircraft. He describes the way that flight developed in the animal kingdom. The fossi....

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00:21:00

Fred Sanger – Father of Molecular Biology

by Fred Sanger
Fred Sanger – Father of Molecular Biology
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 7244 views
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Fred Sanger is often considered the father of modern molecular biology, and is one of the few people to have been awarded two Nobel prizes. Working in Cambridge he developed a new chromatographic method for determining amino-acid end-groups. His n....

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00:47:00

From bench to bedside: KATP channels and neonatal diabetes

by Frances Ashcroft
From bench to bedside: KATP channels and neonatal diabetes
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 10 years ago | 1482 views
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Whether you eat a whole box of chocolates or fast for the day, the pancreatic beta-cells ensure that your blood glucose level remains relatively constant by regulating the release of insulin from the pancreatic beta-cells. Diabetes results when insul....

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