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Recent Developments in our Understanding of the Biology of the Octopus Family

by Sheeva Yazdani
Recent Developments in our Understanding of the Biology of the Octopus Family
for 14-19 and upwards,
Undergraduate presentations | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1678 views
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Sheeva Yazdani presents on the biology of octopuses (octopi?) and recent developments in our understanding.

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00:06:00

The Development, Treatment and Future of Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria.

by Branden Anglin
The Development, Treatment and Future of Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria.
for 14-19 and upwards,
Undergraduate presentations | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 2346 views
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Branden Anglin presents on the development, treatment and possible future of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

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The Role and Species of Beetles Worldwide

by Vinnie LaBarbera
The Role and Species of Beetles Worldwide
for 14-19 and upwards,
Undergraduate presentations | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1378 views
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Vinnie LaBarbera presents on the role and species of beetles worldwide, including some slides of his own work at the FSU Biological Sciences Department.

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00:20:00

Using magnetics to repair nerve damage

by Dan Allwood
Using magnetics to repair nerve damage
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1291 views
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A novel method of guiding nerve growth after accidents and traumas. Microscopic magnetic beads can be used to give direction to nerve re-growth.

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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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01:07:00

Remarkable Creatures – Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species

by Sean Carroll
Remarkable Creatures – Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1773 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'. Sean B. Carroll is a professor of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin-M....

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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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00:52:00

Max Perutz Interview – 2

by Max Perutz
Max Perutz Interview – 2
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1967 views
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The concluding part of an interview with the 1962 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.

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00:16:00

Jacques Monod

by Jacques Monod
Jacques Monod
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1601 views
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An archive interview with the winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine

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00:58:00

Self-Assembly: Nature’s way to do it

by Kuniaki Nagayama
Self-Assembly: Nature’s way to do it
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1346 views
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Biology operates at two levels: the large scale which we can see and the underlying microscopic one. The amazing way in which intermolecular forces cause protein arrays to self-assemble, enabling Nature to fabricate the large scale components of livi....

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00:59:00

Nuts and Bolts of the Mind

by Susan Greenfield
Nuts and Bolts of the Mind
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1715 views
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Susan Greenfield conducts us on an exhilarating tour of brain. A brief fascinating historical introduction is followed by a discussion on our present, admittedly limited, understanding of this amazing organ. Members of the group handle (and dissect) ....

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00:59:00

In the Oceans

by Jacqui McGlade
In the Oceans
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1246 views
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Satellite, ship survey and computer modelling studies of the workings of the marine environment are used explore present fish supplies worldwide. The desperate need for global 'farming' strategies necessary to ensure that the Oceans can continue to p....

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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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00:29:00

Structural and Mechanistic Studies of Ion Channels

by Roderick MacKinnon
Structural and Mechanistic Studies of Ion Channels
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1964 views
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In this interview MacKinnon, Nobel Prizewinner in Chemistry, 2003, discusses Max Perutz and then his own research. He says his course into science was quite sequacious and he really didn't start science until he was about 30 as he had a strong intere....

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00:52:00

Structural and Functional Organization of the Cell

by Christian de Duve
Structural and Functional Organization of the Cell
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 4367 views
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Interview with the Nobel Prizwinner for Medicine,1974

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00:39:00

The interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis

by Marshall Nirenberg
The interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1886 views
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This interview starts with Nirenberg (Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1968) giving his recollections of his school years. He remembers going down into some limestone caves in Florida at the age of 13-14. It was full of fossilized large animal bones. In fact....

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00:53:00

Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe?

by Various Presenters
Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe?
for 18-22 and upwards,
Discussions | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1852 views
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There have been many arguments for and against GM Foods, but the question still stands - are they potential saviors of mankind or a disaster waiting to happen? This award winning video covers a range of important issues, discussed by scientists with ....

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00:29:00

Forever Young – How long can we live?

by Various Presenters
Forever Young – How long can we live?
for All ages,
Discussions | All ages | 15 years ago | 2232 views
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How long can we live, and how long do we want to live? Why do we change as we get old, and is there anything we can do to stop it? In this video the panel discuss ageing and some of the recent remarkable scientific advances that suggest ageing may no....

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00:29:00

Defying Death

by Various Presenters
Defying Death
for All ages,
Discussions | All ages | 15 years ago | 2084 views
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We can now expect to live longer than ever before, and if we get ill, we expect to be made better! However new threats continue to emerge.This presentation discusses tuberculosis and flu, new dangerous versions of old diseases, smoking and other life....

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00:29:00

Predicting Personality

by Various Presenters
Predicting Personality
for 14-19 and upwards,
Discussions | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2975 views
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To what extent is our personality dictated by our genetic makeup? Groundbreaking new research in the fields of genetics and MRI Scanning are only now making it possible to tackle these questions, and the results are sometimes surprising. What makes u....

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00:29:00

The End of Evolution?

by Various Presenters
The End of Evolution?
for 14-19 and upwards,
Discussions | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1663 views
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Have advances in modern medicine put an end to evolution in humans? If not, how is the human race evolving?

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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 | 7241 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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00:29:00

John Cornforth

by John Cornforth
John Cornforth
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2188 views
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Video of John 'Kappa' Cornforth who was born in Australia, and has been profoundly deaf since his teens. He moved into the field of organic chemistry at Sydney University where he met his wife Rita. Together they moved to Oxford and had a profound in....

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00:09:00

Günter Blobel

by Gnter Blobel
Günter Blobel
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2223 views
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Günter Blobel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine/ Physiology 1999 'for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell'. In this interview Blobel talks about the work that he did for t....

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