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This short video explores the stages of decomposition of animal bodies and shows how microorganisms found during the decomposition process can provide useful information for criminal investigators.

This short video explores how a baby’s microbiome is established during birth.

This short video explores a thought experiment of what the world would be like without any microbes.

This short video explores the symbiotic relationship between the Hawaiian bobtail squid and light-producing bacteria.

This short video explores the secrets behind termites’ power to digest an abundant source of food: wood.

This short video explores the symbiotic relationship between giant tube worms and species of chemosynthetic bacteria.

This video describes how scientists silence different genes in regenerating planaria to study the process of regeneration at the molecular level.

This video showcases the work of mathematician-turned-biologist Corina Tarnita, who uses quantitative approaches to understand the role of termite mounds in the savanna ecosystem.

This animation shows how a region of the brain called the cerebral cortex develops in a human fetus.

This film tells the story of the scientists and the evidence involved in one of the most important scientific quests of the 20th century: the discovery of the structure of DNA.

This animation tracks how the human brain develops over nine months of gestation.

This animation shows how varying concentrations of a signaling molecule activate different transcription factors to determine cell fate.