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"Kermit the Frog famously said that it isn't easy being green, and in Living at Micro Scale David Dusenbery shows that it isn't easy being small - existing at the size of, say, a rotifer, a tiny multicellular animal just at the boundary between the visible and the microscopic. "Imagine," he writes, "stepping off a curb and waiting a week for your foot to hit the ground." At that scale, we would be small enough to swim inside the letter O in the word...
3) Proteins
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Proteins, the essential biochemical foundation of the cell, fulfill a variety of tasks within the human body. This program provides insights into their structure and several of their functions, including their role in catalytic biochemical reaction and reproduction. How proteins recognize the "packaging" of smaller molecules is explored. Using a photosynthetic protein-a proton pump-as an example, excellent computer simulation shows the proteins at...
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This program shows the various types of gene reproduction and examines the gene responsible for blood clotting. The production of coded proteins is clearly demonstrated. The processes of gel filtration, protein sequence analysis, isolation of mRNA, DNA synthesis and reproduction, production and screening of a DNA bank, and hybridization, along with other demonstrations, are re-created through highly sophisticated computer animation.
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Continuing their journey across the U.S. in one of the world's largest airships, the team questions how the atmosphere changes with altitude and how that has an impact on the life found there. Microbiologist Dr. Chris van Tulleken and former paratrooper Andy Torbet search for living microorganisms in the "death zone" of high altitude. Parachuting from 26,000 feet, Andy has to overcome sub-freezing temperatures and fatally low levels of oxygen to undertake...
6) Toxic Ticks
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Do Australian ticks pose a greater health risk than we thought? For people suffering from Lyme-like disease it's a controversial mystery that science has so far been unable to resolve. For the first time, microbes inside native Aussie ticks are being probed, leading to new discoveries which may reveal the causes of unexplained illnesses in future.
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Everywhere you go, everything you touch, you are surrounded by microscopic germs. They bounce off your arm when you scratch, they fly off your hand when you wave to a friend, they spew out your mouth when you talk. Even when you sit around doing nothing, like watching this video... you're sittingin your own, personal germ bubble.
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This stunning photographic essay opens a new frontier for readers to explore through words and images. Microbial studies have clarified life's origins on Earth, explained the functioning of ecosystems, and improved both crop yields and human health. Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter are expert guides to an invisible world waiting in plain sight.--
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Humans knew what yeast did long before they knew what it was. It was not until Louis Pasteur's experiments in the 1860s that scientists even acknowledged its classification as a fungus. A compelling blend of science, history, and sociology The Rise of Yeast explores the rich, strange, and utterly symbiotic relationship between people and yeast.
"The great Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley once wrote, "I know of no familiar substance forming part...
11) Hostile World
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With each inhalation, human beings take in potentially lethal microbes, while life-sustaining sunlight can also cause irreparable damage to DNA. This program explains how the body defends itself against these and other threats. Viewers are introduced to a bull jumper whose muscles give him the strength to avoid a violent death, a 3-year-old whose internal army fights off the flu, and a man who gets injured constantly to earn his living. The video...
12) Giant Viruses
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Mimivirus (microbe mimicking virus), published in Nature in 2003 is the first member of a family of unsuspected organisms, some very different from each other, all astonishing different in their size, their genes and their ‘performances’ – one of them has ‘survived’ 30 000 years in the Siberian permafrost. These giant viruses seem to fill the gap between the viral world and the living cell world. Do they represent a new branch of life on...
13) Bacteria Killers
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One hundred years ago, the scientist Félix d'Herelle discovered the existence of the bacteriophage, a mysterious "bacteria killing" virus. As antibiotics are becoming less efficient in fighting increasingly strong bacteria, will phage therapy become the science of tomorrow?This story takes us from the banks of the Ganges to the shores of the Black Sea in Russia and Georgia, from Paris to the United States, as it retraces the discovery of bacteriophages,...
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More microorganisms live in and on our bodies than our bodies have cells. Bacteria, fungi and viruses form our microbiome and its condition is crucial to our health. Our “lodgers” are responsible for a large part of our immune defences, protect our skin, and communicate with the brain, but above all, as what are known as “intestinal flora,” they facilitate our metabolism.
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What are the other three kingdoms of life? Apart from the kingdoms of animals and plants, there are three little-known but extremely important kingdoms in existence: Protista, Monera, and Fungi. Learn all about each of the kingdoms, their environments, their characteristics, and how they affect us and our planet.
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From SARS to the swine flu, viruses that threaten the developed world seem to be growing in ranks. Even as medical science rises to the challenge, our knowledge of viruses is filled with troubling gaps and bewildering realities. Starting on the virus front lines-the rainforests of central Africa-this program unlocks the truth about nature's greatest terror weapons. Viewers learn why HIV is such a successful virus, why monkey pox may become the next...
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Antibiotics were once seen as super drugs. They rapidly disarmed pneumonia and many other previously fatal bacterial conditions. They also had relatively few side effects. But the bacteria weren't ready to surrender. Strains emerged that were resistant to the world's most potent medicines, and now, because of these resistant strains of bacteria, we're facing a worldwide crisis. This episode of Healthy Body, Healthy Mind shows how the problem developed...
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Developing new medicines, breeding better plant varieties, making cleaning supplies more efficient - biotechnology uses natural cellular and bimolecular processes to develop new technologies or improve existing products. In this film, we look at some of the most promising products being developed now and explore some of the potential dangers.The biotech industry can be divided into three main sections: medicine and pharmaceuticals, industry and agriculture...
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