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This film explores how life recovered after an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs and how those events shaped the diversity of plants and mammals on Earth today.

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

This video describes how prehistoric extinction rates are calculated from fossil data in a paleodatabase and compared to modern extinction rates.

This video provides an overview of the types of genes that, when mutated, can lead to the development of cancer.

This film tells the story of the scientific quest to explain one of the greatest, long-standing scientific mysteries: the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period.

This film explores how gene duplications and mutations have led to remarkable physiological adaptations in Antarctic fish.

This animation shows how a mutation that allows adult humans to digest milk can be lost or spread under different circumstances.

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

This video shows real footage of a cytotoxic T cell killing a cell infected by a pathogen.

This animation shows how a cell infected by a virus signals cytotoxic T cells to destroy itself.

This animation shows how stem cells from early mammalian embryos can be grown and studied in a laboratory.

This animation describes the formation and fates of the three germ layers in a human embryo.