YouTube: What is it, and are we close to a cure?
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 465 views • 3:43Videos (58) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
Amazing? ... not the first word that comes to mind [for me anyway].
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 66 views • 3:09YouTube Description: Jellyfish don’t have a heart, or blood, or even a brain. They’ve survived five mass extinctions. And you can find them in every ocean, from pole to pole. What’s their secret?... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 7 months ago • 170 views • 2:56Depends on your species.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 125 views • 8:49"Vaccines save more than 9 million lives each year ... "
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 910 views • 2:48"Eternal youth wouldn't make us invincible." YouTube: References: Aubert, G. & Lansdorp, P. M. (2008) Telomeres and aging. Physiological Review 88(2): 557–579. http://simonadellemonache.com/dispens... ... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 581 views • 2:58A beautifully produced video in which we follow John, a motor protein, who has to transport his package to the right destination in the nerve cell, illustrating the relevance and mechanisms of proper intracellular... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 9 years 3 weeks ago • 447 views • 5:14YouTube: How can we transplant animal tissue into humans? And will we ever be able to grow customized organs?
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 4 weeks ago • 98 views • 4:45"Have you ever seen a tree with a big twisted knot growing out of it?"
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 205 views • 2:18Dig those crazy eyes! YouTube: New research shows chameleons actively tune nano-crystals to change their color.
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 2 months 1 week ago • 22 views • 5:42YouTube: There’s a lot we don’t know about how and when dogs were first domesticated. But we do know that the process made dogs very different from their wild cousins, in some unexpected ways.
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 816 views • 3:37So your cellmate knows your ethnicity.
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 9 years 10 months 1 week ago • 753 views • 4:26YouTube Description: are you an uninsured American? Check out: https://www.healthcare.gov Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com Mental Floss "micromorts"... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 1 month 3 weeks ago • 278 views • 8:06Welcome to the future
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 7 months 3 weeks ago • 249 views • 2:04Single cells with TV and private bathroom. No bars on windows. Daily life spent between work and school. Even a cottage where inmates can spend weekends with their families. Welcome to new Halden Prison,... continue reading
posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 decade 11 months ago • 564 views • 8:05The inherited genetic causes of human aging.
posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 2 months 1 week ago • 53 views • 2:06Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal. The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the... continue reading
posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 1 year 10 months 4 weeks ago • 985 views • 14:47