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This video follows scientists working in Gorongosa National Park as they try to determine the genes responsible for tusk development in elephants.

This film explores the evolutionary connection between an infectious disease, malaria, and a genetic condition, sickle cell disease.

This video presents an intriguing phenomenon: two patients who carry the same genetic variation, which is known to cause sickle cell disease, have very different outcomes.

This animation shows how mutations in an ion channel protein lead to the genetic disease cystic fibrosis. The animation also discusses how research on this protein has been used to develop treatments for the disease.

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

This film describes the scientific principles and the research efforts involved in the development of a gene therapy for a congenital form of blindness, and how a young patient benefited from this medical breakthrough.

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

This animation describes how skin color is generated by skin cells as protection against ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

This animation shows how disrupting cellular processes in the intestines can lead to colon cancer.

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

This film explores the genetics and evolution of lactase persistence in humans.

This animation shows how human infants can digest milk using the enzyme lactase.