PickVidsBest Biology & biotechnology Videos
The 82 Biology & biotechnology videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 8 introductory, 17 intermediate, 54 for a general viewer, and 3 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, The Thought Emporium, Veritasium.
What is the best diet for humans? | Eran Segal | TEDxRuppin
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Cody's Algae Panel
Cody's Lab builds a prototype algae growing panel as an experiment before making more.
The Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!)
PBS Space Time, together with It's Okay to be Smart and PBS Eons, asks how a universe drifting toward disorder produced something as complex as life.
What Is the RNA World Hypothesis?
Stated Clearly explains the RNA world hypothesis, which resolves the chicken-or-egg problem of genes versus enzymes by proposing that RNA once did both jobs.
The man who faked human cloning
BobbyBroccoli's first of two long documentaries about Hwang Woo-suk, the South Korean scientist who faked human cloning results.
Gay Frogs: A Deep Dive
A long video essay on the claim that chemicals such as atrazine are feminizing frogs.
Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | Lex Fridman Podcast #325
Lex Fridman talks with Tufts biologist Michael Levin about bioelectricity, embryogenesis, xenobots and how cells collectively pursue goals.
How the Krebs cycle powers life and death – with Nick Lane
Biochemist Nick Lane gives a Royal Institution lecture arguing that the Krebs cycle is central to what makes cells alive, not just genetic information.
Mitochondria: the cell's powerhouse
A short Harvard animation narrated by Professor Rob Lue introducing mitochondria as the cell's powerhouses and how cells turn food and oxygen into energy.
Joe Rogan Experience #1385 - Paul Stamets
A long Joe Rogan Experience interview with mycologist Paul Stamets about fungi, medicinal mushrooms and bioremediation.
Anton: A Special-Purpose Machine That Achieves a Hundred-Fold Speedup in Biomolecular Simulations
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I Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast
The Thought Emporium shows how they engineered a yeast strain to produce real spider silk, after more than two years of lab work and many failures.
What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?
PBS Space Time considers whether life could be based on silicon instead of carbon, comparing the two elements' chemistry and why silicon is the most plausible alternative.
Simple Bacteria Genetic Engineering
The Thought Emporium shows how easily bacteria can be genetically modified to produce fluorescent proteins and even bioluminesce, with techniques doable at home.
Ancient Life as Old as the Universe
Kurzgesagt explores the idea that life might have arisen shortly after the Big Bang, when the whole universe was warm enough to be habitable.
White Blood Cell Chases Bacteria
A very short microscope clip of a neutrophil chasing a Staphylococcus aureus bacterium, originally from David Rogers at Vanderbilt University.
Mike Levin - Live ALife 2020 Keynote - Robot Cancer
Michael Levin's keynote at the ALife 2020 conference, 'Robot Cancer', on how bioelectric signaling in embryogenesis and regeneration informs unconventional computing, cognition and the 'software of life'.
DMTx Breakthrough Panel Moderated By Graham Hancock, Dr. Andrew Gallimore & Dr. Rick Strassman
A roughly two and a half hour Noonautics panel on DMT research moderated by Graham Hancock with Andrew Gallimore and Rick Strassman.
Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week
A Half as Interesting explainer on the US program that drops millions of sterile screwworm flies over Panama every week to keep the parasite out of North America.
Genetic Engineering and Diseases – Gene Drive & Malaria
A Kurzgesagt animation on using gene drives to modify mosquitoes against malaria, and whether we should.
DNA Testing and Privacy (Behind the scenes at the 23andMe Lab) - Smarter Every Day 176
Destin of Smarter Every Day goes behind the scenes at the 23andMe lab to show how genotyping works.
Your Body's Molecular Machines
Veritasium short showing Drew Berry's scientifically accurate animations of the molecular machines that drive cell division.
21. Chaos and Reductionism
Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lecture on chaos and reductionism, which he calls one of the hardest of the course.
Overview of Illumina Sequencing by Synthesis Workflow | Standard SBS chemistry
Illumina's 3D animation of its sequencing-by-synthesis workflow, from sample preparation and cluster generation to sequencing on a flow cell and data analysis.