5 Ways CRISPR Is About to Change Everything
Adults BiotechnologyCRISPR-based gene therapies are already changing healthcare for things like sickle cell disease. But CRISPR is bigger than just medicine, and it could revolutionize everything from food and agriculture to green energy fuels to plastics.
The Most Dangerous Weapon Is Not Nuclear
Adults BiotechnologyA breathtaking scientific revolution is taking place – biotechnology has been progressing at stunning speed, giving us the tools to eventually gain control over biology. On the one hand solving the deadliest diseases while also creating viruses more dangerous than nuclear bombs, able to devastate humanity.
What Biologists Do: Crash Course Biology
Adults BiotechnologyA biologist’s natural habitat is anywhere questions about life are being asked—whether the subject is a nematode or a narwhal, a single cell, or a whole ecosystem.
These SCP’s Could End The World
Adults BiotechnologyThe SCP Foundation has been responsible for keeping not only our world, but our universe safe. They contain some of the most deadly SCPs known to man, because if just one of these vicious SCPs got loose, it could spell the end of the world!
The wild world of carnivorous plants
Adults BiotechnologyVenus fly traps, bladderworts and sundews, oh my! Learn about carnivorous plants and their predatory antics to lure, trap and digest prey.
Where Do Teeth Come From?
Adults BiotechnologyTeeth. We’ve all got ‘em (most of us, anyway). But how do they grow? Teeth are made from some biological nanotechnology that will blow your mind.
See How Termites Inspired a Building That Can Cool Itself
Adults BiotechnologyHow do you cool a building without air conditioning?
What Would REALLY Happen If You Cloned Yourself?
Adults BiotechnologyWhat happens when we clone things? Is cloning people even possible?
This Biomimetic Tech Could Mean Fewer Trips to the Dentist (You're Welcome)
Adults BiotechnologyA new material inspired by mussels may be the key to fillings and crowns that never break or fall out.
The Future Of Agriculture Is Here
Adults BiotechnologyProject Flora Robotica studies the symbiotic relationships between robots and plants.
Muscle-Mimicking Robots Could Change Physical Therapy
Adults BiotechnologyThey are flexible and reconfigurable, and behave like actual human muscles.
Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever
Adults BiotechnologyDesigner babies, the end of diseases, genetically modified humans that never age. Outrageous things that used to be science fiction are suddenly becoming reality. The only thing we know for sure is that things will change irreversibly.
How do glasses help us see?
Adults BiotechnologyToday, glasses help millions of people with poor vision be able to see clearly. But how? Andrew Bastawrous and Clare Gilbert help unravel the answer by explaining refraction - the ability of a transparent medium, like glass, water, or the eye, to change the direction of light passing through it.
This Is the Most Amazing Biomimetic Robot Hand You've Ever Seen
Adults BiotechnologyThird arm? Robot tentacle? My dreams of having extra tentacles may come true!
Bionic Leg Closely Mimics Natural Body Movements
Adults BiotechnologyMIT Media Lab's Hugh Herr explains how he looks to nature when developing new bionic appendages. The amputee and avid rock climber discusses how his biomechatronics division is pioneering the technologies that aim to augment human physical capabilities.
Transfer Your Consciousness
Adults BiotechnologyCould You Transfer Your Consciousness To Another Body?
An Affordable 3D-Printed Arm
Adults BiotechnologyStudents at UCF are designing an inexpensive 3D printed arm for kids.
Derby the dog: Running on 3D Printed Prosthetics
Adults BiotechnologySee how unique, custom 3D printed prosthetics allow Derby the dog to run for the first time.
This double amputee can control two robotic arms with his mind
Adults BiotechnologyA Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control two of the Laboratory's Modular Prosthetic Limbs.
Bionic Eye Allows A Blind Man To See After 33 Years.
Adults BiotechnologyLarry Hester, 66, has been blind for half his life from a condition called retinitis pigmentosa. In September, 2014, an electronic stimulator was surgically implanted in his left eye. On October 1st, 2014 Duke eye surgeon Dr. Paul Hahn turned it on for the first time. While the device does not restore vision in the normal sense, it provides light-and-darkness differentiation.