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Video: Unnatural is better—How technology keeps us healthier and living longer

Alex Berezow | 
American Council on Science and Health microbiologist Alex Berezow takes on one of the most pervasive myths on social media ...
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Video: How can we figure out the real fatality rate of COVID-19 and how lethal it is?

Wessam Atif | 
Dr. Wessam Atif breaks down what we do and don't know about the worldwide death rate, or case fatality rate, ...
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Video: Why we should ignore most reported COVID-19 statistics

Wessam Atif | 
Every day we wake up and check COVID-19 updates. Governments usually announce 6 main numbers: 1) New cases 2) Total ...
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Video: What makes opioids so addictive

Mike Davis | 
In the 1980s and 90s, pharmaceutical companies began to market opioid painkillers aggressively, while actively downplaying their addictive potential. The ...
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Video: Exploring the natural events that created the coronavirus pandemic

Benjamin tenOever | 
The coronavirus pandemic has changed our day-to-day life as we know it – but how did the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) ...
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Video: Why gene-edited crops? Examining the nutritional and environmental benefits of CRISPR

David Fikes | 
As genetic engineering continues to improve our food supply, David Fikes of FMI Foundation explains that humans have always modified ...
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Video: What are the chances that Moderna’s experimental coronavirus vaccine will work?

Anna Rothschild | 
A vaccine for COVID-19 has entered Phase 1 of clinical trials in Seattle. How was it made? And how likely ...
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Video: The evolution, genetics and virulence of coronaviruses

Britt Glaunsinger | 
UC Berkeley professor and IGI Investigator Britt Glaunsinger, PhD, explains the evolution, genetics, and virulence of coronaviruses. The rapid spread ...
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Video: These ‘micro-machines’ could repair our bodies and clean our oceans

Measuring less than a millimeter wide, these micro-machines are programmable lifeforms that researchers from the University of Vermont and Tufts ...
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Video: Biohackers take coronavirus vaccine into their own hands

Zach Weissmueller | 
A collective of biohackers has begun circulating a document proposing a plan to create, test, and distribute a vaccine to ...
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Video: How COVID-19 attacks a patient’s lungs

CT imaging from George Washington University Hospital shows the effects of Covid-19 on the lungs of a 59-year old man ...
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Video: Here’s how quickly the coronavirus could overwhelm US hospitals

Katie Campbell, Lucas Waldron | 
How bad will the coronavirus be for US hospitals? Some experts suggest that 20-60 percent of adults may contract the ...
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Video: What CRISPR means for human evolution

Tech experts discuss the past, present and future of CRISPR gene editing. How will the technology affect our future generations? ...
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Video: Filipino farmers ‘clamor’ for access to GMO insect-resistant Bt eggplant

SEARCA Biotechnology Information Center (SEARCA BIC) releases The Bt Eggplant Story, a new video series that documents the development of Bt ...
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Video: Building a bionic prosthetic leg that ‘thinks for itself’

It’s no question that researchers, doctors, and engineers want to design more effective robotic limbs that can help paralyzed and ...
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Video: Neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca on his pioneering efforts to grow brain organoids from stem cells

Sergiu Pasca | 
When [Stanford University brain researcher Sergiu] Pasca started his own lab at the university in 2014, he continued working on ...
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Video: Two mutations join forces to create deadlier cancer

Brian Stallard | 
Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have discovered that ...
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Video: Here’s what sugar does to our brains

Nicole Avena | 
When you eat something loaded with sugar, your taste buds, your gut and your brain all take notice. This activation ...
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Video: Can meat substitutes like the GMO Impossible Burger make inroads as a meat substitute in China and other countries?

Beth Kowitt, Patrick Brown | 
Meat substitutes are surging in popularity as an environmentalist backlash against meat intensifies and as the taste of meat substitutes ...
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Video: Crops engineered with nanoparticles could survive bleak environments—including space

Tyler Berrigan | 
A family of nanoparticles known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, can absorb harmful UV radiation. Joseph Richardson is a nano-engineer ...
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Video: Does eating red meat increase cancer risk? Here’s what’s wrong with a recent study.

Tiffany Doherty | 
The old chestnut that eating red meat leads to cancer is back. A [recent] study claimed that eating red meat ...
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Video: Prof Joe Schwarcz on why bugs may be coming to our dinner plates

Joe Schwarcz | 
Pretty soon there will be 9 billion people coming to dinner. That population boom is going to require an increase ...
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Video: Targeting glioblastoma and other deadly cancers with nanoparticles, chemotherapy

Stephen Frederico | 
Nanoparticles are capable of carrying chemotherapy to areas of the body afflicted by cancer. However, what if these nanoparticles were ...
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Video: African biotech scientist Margaret Karembu defends safety, sustainability of GMO crops

Margaret Karembu, Nick Saik | 
Environmental scientist Margaret Karembu takes on common objections to GMO crops in this interview with Know Ideas Media founder Nick ...
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Video: Alzheimer’s and the disappointing history of amyloid research

Alex Hogan, Damian Garde | 
The idea that sticky brain plaques cause Alzheimer’s disease began as an interesting hypothesis and eventually became drug industry dogma. Now, ...
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Video: Robot dinosaurs show us how flight evolved

Michael Irving | 
Modern birds are believed to have evolved from certain types of dinosaurs, and the transitional species Archaeopteryx sits neatly in ...
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