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.
COVID-19 Vaccines: MODERNA | PFIZER/BIONTECH | ASTRAZENECA
A Ninja Nerd whiteboard lecture on the Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.
Nanobot (Havana Parody) | A Capella Science ft. Dorothy Andrusiak
A Capella Science parody of Camila Cabello's Havana, retold as a song about molecular machines and nanotechnology.
Michael Levin: Anatomical decision-making by cellular collectives
Michael Levin presents his lab's work on how cellular collectives use bioelectric networks to make anatomical decisions.
Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269
Lex Fridman interviews University of Glasgow chemist Lee Cronin about the origin of life, aliens, complexity and consciousness.
Am I still lactose tolerant? - Lactose Gene Therapy Update
The Thought Emporium's update on the home-brewed gene therapy he took to cure his lactose intolerance.
Growing Living Rat Neurons To Play... DOOM? | Part 1
The Thought Emporium grows living rat neurons on an electrode array and tries to train them to play Doom.
George Hotz | Programming | we do coronavirus science aka hacking nature #lockdown part1 | COVID-19
A long George Hotz livestream in which he explores the coronavirus genome and molecular biology from scratch using a browser and Python, hacking on the science in real time.
Ron Vale (UCSF, HHMI) 1: Molecular Motor Proteins
Ron Vale of UCSF and HHMI gives an introductory lecture on kinesin, dynein and myosin motor proteins.
Homochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules
Steve Mould explains homochirality: why biological molecules like sugars and amino acids come in only one handedness.
Growing Human Neurons on a Home Made Electrode Array
The Thought Emporium builds a homemade multi-electrode array, grows human neurons on it and attempts to take readings.
Cordyceps: attack of the killer fungi - Planet Earth Attenborough BBC wildlife
A three-minute clip from BBC's Planet Earth narrated by David Attenborough about Cordyceps, the fungus that infects insects and takes over their behavior.
How The Immune System ACTUALLY Works – IMMUNE
A Kurzgesagt animation giving a big-picture tour of the human immune system, its organs, transport network, and the cells it produces every day.
Kinesin protein walking on microtubule
A very short animation of a kinesin motor protein walking along a microtubule inside a cell, carrying cargo.
Your Body Killed Cancer 5 Minutes Ago
A Kurzgesagt animation about how the immune system constantly detects and kills cells that are turning cancerous.
The Immune System Explained I – Bacteria Infection
A Kurzgesagt animation of how the immune system responds to a bacterial infection, depicting immune cells as an army defending the body.
Why Women Are Stripey
Veritasium explains X-chromosome inactivation, where different cells in a woman's body switch off different X chromosomes, giving a mosaic pattern.
Matter to Mind:Bioelectricity, Body Intelligence, Future of Regenerative Medicine- Dr. Michael Levin
Developmental and synthetic biologist Michael Levin speaks at a Harvard Extension student event on bioelectricity, body intelligence and regenerative medicine.
You Are Immune Against Every Disease
Kurzgesagt's animated explainer on the human immune system, describing the body as an ecosystem and how immune defenses cope with the variety of invaders.
The Scariest Episode Yet - Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project - 10/30/18
An episode of Adam Savage's Still Untitled podcast with molecular biologist Joe DeRisi.
AlphaFold - The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done
A Veritasium video on AlphaFold, DeepMind's protein structure prediction system, and the protein design work it enabled.
Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space
An episode of Journey to the Microcosmos, hosted by Hank Green, about diatoms, single-celled algae with glass shells.
Shawn Douglas - Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins & Bret Victor - Dynamicland
A Foresight Institute workshop video with two talks: Shawn Douglas on nanoscale instruments for visualizing small proteins, and Bret Victor on Dynamicland.
Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR
Kurzgesagt's animated explainer on CRISPR gene editing, covering how the technology works and what it could mean for curing disease, designer babies and aging.
The Man Who Took LSD and Changed The World
Veritasium tells the story of Kary Mullis, the surfer and LSD user who invented PCR and won a Nobel Prize.