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

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

This animation illustrates the main stages of the water cycle in Gorongosa National Park, an ecosystem that experiences both wet and dry seasons.

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

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.

This animation gives an overview of how a fertilized human egg develops into an embryo.

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

This animation shows how somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) creates an embryo from an egg cell and a body cell.

This animation shows how X chromosomes are randomly switched off in most female mammals.

This video provides a demonstration of differences between sexual reproduction, which involves recombination through meiosis, and asexual reproduction, which does not.

This animation shows how meiosis, the form of cell division unique to egg and sperm production, can give rise to sperm that carry either an X or a Y chromosome.