What Is Sickle Cell Disease?
YouthBiologyGeneticsScienceHealthEducation... You have around 35 trillion red blood cells moving around your body at all times. Typically they are rounded and flexible. What happens when they aren’t?
The Ice Bucket Challenge Actually Worked
YouthGeneticsHealthScienceWorldCharity... The Ice Bucket Challenge raised millions of dollars for research into treatments for ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease.
How DNA Reveals Vikings Never Left Scotland
YouthHistoryWorldGenetics Vikings conquered many of Scotland's islands, as well as the mainland, in the 8th and 9th Centuries. They came, they conquered, they left, or so the story seemed to go.
You could have a secret twin (but not the way you think) - Kayla Mandel Sheets
AdultsBiologyHumanScienceGeneticsHealthFamily... While searching for a kidney donor, Karen Keegan stumbled upon a mystery. After undergoing genetic testing, it turned out that some of her cells had a completely different set of genes from the others.
Why You Can't Build A Clone Army... (Yet)
AdultsHistoryHumanScienceBiologyGenetics... Because of the way genetic reprogramming works, it’s hard to make one clone based on an adult cell, and it’s almost impossible to make a second-generation one.
The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World
AdultsEnvironmentGeneticsNature Bamboo is the world’s fastest growing plant thanks to the cell elongation process it shares with all grasses and its unique cell wall layering adaptation, allowing it to shoot up to 100 ft (30m) in just 8 weeks.
This Strange Condition Keeps You Looking Young Forever
AdultsBiologyGeneticsScience What if you were forever stuck in the aging process? Could you actually stay looking young for the rest of your life? What problems would you face if you had a growth hormone deficiency that caused you to never actually age?
Is Height All In Our Genes?
AdultsHealthScienceGenetics I'm tall. Most of the people in my family are tall. Does that mean my son will be tall? Turns out the inheritance of height is a lot more complicated than we thought.
The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth - The Bacteriophage
AdultsBiologyGeneticsNatureScienceHealth... A war has been raging for billions of years, killing trillions every single day, while we don't even notice. This war involves the single deadliest being on our planet: The Bacteriophage.
Mom vs. Dad: What Did You Inherit?
AdultsGeneticsHuman What traits have your parents pass down to you?
How Do You Actually Understand Language?
AdultsGeneticsLanguage Language is fascinating, but how do we understand it?
Is It Safe To Get Your DNA Tested?
AdultsFamilyGeneticsScienceHealthPrivacy... Once it's out of your body, your genetic information is valuable to a variety of people, but you can keep it safe(ish) with a few simple steps.
How Evolution works
AdultsBiologyGeneticsHistoryScienceEvolution... The theory of evolution explains how the enormous variety of life could come into existence. How it is possible for primitive life forms to spawn the millions of different creatures, that exist today.
How to Make an Elephant Explode with Science - The Size of Life 2
AdultsAnimalsGeneticsScienceBiologyExperiments... Life on this planet is based on cells. Cells do vary in size. But they are pretty similar in their dimensions across all species. A blue whale doesn't have bigger cells than a hummingbird, just a lot more of them.