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 Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018
Michael Levin's NeurIPS 2018 talk on bioelectric computation outside the nervous system, showing how cell electrical networks shape development and regeneration.
Joe Rogan Experience #1035 - Paul Stamets
A two-hour Joe Rogan Experience conversation with mycologist Paul Stamets about fungi, mycelium, bioremediation and medicinal mushrooms.
DEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome
John Sotos, a physician and former Intel chief medical officer, argues at DEF CON 25 that genetic diseases are exploitable vulnerabilities in the genome.
DNA animation (2002-2014) by Drew Berry and Etsuko Uno wehi.tv #ScienceArt
A compilation of molecular animations of DNA replication and gene transcription by Drew Berry and Etsuko Uno at WEHI, made with no narration.
I Genetically Engineered *MYSELF* to Fix Lactose Intolerance
The Thought Emporium's host describes making and taking a DIY gene therapy to treat his own lactose intolerance.
mRNA Translation (Advanced)
A short animation from the DNA Learning Center showing how mRNA carries a gene's message to the ribosome, where tRNA and codons are used to assemble amino acids into a protein.
Animations of unseeable biology | Drew Berry | TED
Drew Berry shows scientifically accurate animations of molecular processes inside cells, such as DNA replication, at TEDxSydney.
Michael Levin: The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life | TED
Biologist Michael Levin explains the bioelectric layer that coordinates cells to build organs and bodies, showing footage of two-headed worms and introducing xenobots.
Jack Szostak (Harvard/HHMI) Part 1: The Origin of Cellular Life on Earth
Jack Szostak's lecture covers how cellular life could have arisen from chemistry on the early Earth, starting from the odds of life elsewhere in the galaxy.
The Inner Life of the Cell Animation
An award-winning 3D animation by XVIVO for Harvard's BioVisions showing the molecular machinery inside a cell as a white blood cell responds to a stimulus.
Bret Weinstein on "The Portal" (w/ host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #019 - The Prediction and the DISC.
A long Portal podcast episode in which Bret Weinstein tells Eric Weinstein the story of his lab mice telomere work, the prediction behind it, and what it means for science and aging.
The Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish (Kishony Lab)
A two-minute time-lapse from the Kishony Lab showing bacteria spreading across a giant petri dish with increasing antibiotic doses, evolving resistance as they go.
Bret Weinstein and Yuri Deigin: Did Covid-19 leak From a Lab?
Bret Weinstein and Yuri Deigin discuss the evidence for the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a lab, including the furin cleavage site and gain-of-function research.
The Roots of Your Profits - Dr Elaine Ingham, Soil Microbiologist, Founder of Soil Foodweb Inc
Soil microbiologist Elaine Ingham speaks at the Oxford Real Farming Conference on how soil organisms cycle nutrients, unlock minerals from rock and air, and why pesticides and fertilizers harm soil life.
Evo-Devo (Despacito Biology Parody) | A Capella Science
A Capella Science parody of Despacito that sings through evolutionary developmental biology, explaining how a single cell becomes a body, including body-axis genes and dormant snake leg DNA.
6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Paul Stamets | TED
Mycologist Paul Stamets presents six ways mycelium and fungi could help save the world, in an 18-minute TED talk.
"We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman (2011)
Gerald Sussman's 2011 Strange Loop keynote argues we still do not know how to compute, comparing biological systems with how we program machines.
Electron transport chain
A short Harvard Online animated lesson on how the mitochondrial electron transport chain works.
Matt Might - Winning the War on Error Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer
Matt Might's Curry On talk on ending errors in code, both software and the human genome.
Prof. Thomas Seyfried - 'Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: Implications for Novel Therapies'
A lecture by Prof.
Geoffrey West on COMPLEXITY
Physicist Geoffrey West speaks at an FQXi conference on time about complexity and scaling laws.
The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage
An animated Kurzgesagt explainer on bacteriophages, viruses that kill bacteria, covering how they infect and burst cells and their potential as therapy against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Michael Levin: Consciousness, Biology, Universal Mind, Emergence, Cancer Research
Curt Jaimungal interviews biologist Michael Levin of Tufts about consciousness, bioelectricity, emergence, and cancer research.
Where Do Trees Get Their Mass?
Veritasium asks people where a tree's mass comes from, then explains that most of a dry tree's mass originates from carbon dioxide in the air.