Biology

hank-green

Eukaryopolis: The City of Animal Cells

If the only thing you can remember from biology class is that it was really long, the odds are that Hank Green wasn’t your teacher. In this video, Green uses his unique combination of stand-up comedy and scientific lecture to unlock the mysteries of the animal cell.

carol greider

Advancing Cancer Research

Carol Greider is a molecular biologist at John Hopkins University and a Nobel Prize-winner. In this lecture at UCSB, her former school, she describes how she helped develop new strategies for cancer research after solving a fundamental biology problem

anthony atala

Printing a human kidney with a 3D printer

Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala’s young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago..

robert sapolsky

25-lecture Course: Human Behavioral Biology (Stanford BIO 250)

This is a biology course presented by Stanford University (BIO 250). It covers how to approach complex normal and abnormal behaviors through biology.

sidney altman rna

Entering the RNA World

Nobel Laureate Sidney Altman, Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University, gives a general description of the problem of the origin of life on Earth with some detail about RNA.

biology-1b

41-Lecture Course: General Biology (Biology 1B)

This course provides an introduction to the study of biology. The course is from UC Berkeley and is taught by professors Mary E. Power, Thomas J. Carlson, Brent D. Mishler, and Mike Moser.

Jay Phelan UCLA Life Sciences

19-Lecture Course: Life Sciences – Life, Concepts and Issues: UCLA Life Sciences 15

Life, Concepts and Issues is a general education course targeted towards non-life science majors who are looking to explore concepts and issues in the life sciences field. Topics include: chemistry of life, genetics, physiology, evolution, and ecology.

Juan Enriquez Tech Revolution TED

Tech Evolution Can Overcome Financial Crises

We can’t keep feeding falling businesses with stimulus money, but instead we need to look to the future and focus on tech startups in biology, robotics and other “Singularity” technologies. These technologies, he says, hold the keys to the next evolution of our species: the Homo Evolutis.

UCLA Darwin Biology Course

10-Lecture Course: Darwin’s Legacy

this course celebrates the work of Charles Darwin through discussions with the country’s leading Darwin scholars. They span the fields of anthropology, religion, medicine, psychology, philosophy, literature, and biology.

Robert Wyman Yale Population Growth Free College Course

24-lecture Yale Course: Global Problems of Population Growth

As the population continues to grow we will be faced with many questions that need answering. This course introduces students to understanding and addressing these problems in a discussion on human fertility, population growth, the demographic transition and population policy through a biological lens.

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