Secret Universe: Journey Inside the Cell
This epic film takes us on a high-tech adventure inside our own cells, revealing an alien world few have ever seen before - and reveals our eternal battle against the threat of invading viruses.
Like something out of science-fiction, the battle of ...
Death by Design
Winner of 10 international awards, Death by Design is a guided tour into the invisible world of cells, told through a collage of metaphors and interviews with cellular biologists. State-of-the-art microcinematography is playfully intercut with paral...
Hidden kingdom: early discoveries in cell science
It was a businessman, not a trained scientist, who first gained entry to the cryptic world of cells. This program relates the early history of microbiology and genetics, beginning with the story of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a 17th-century Dutch texti...
Cells, Tissues, and Skin
After an introductory segment on cell characteristics, this program discusses the way human body cells function and combine into the structures that sustain life. Topics include membrane permeability and the processes of passive and active transport...
Cells: the building blocks of life
This video takes a close-up look at the lowest common denominator of all life: the cell. It illustrates essential cellular processes - transportation of materials, communication, energy transfer, protein-building, waste disposal, movement, and the a...
The domains of life: life's three great branches
The Domains of Life updates the five kingdoms classification scheme with the latest understanding of life’s organization based on DNA, fossil, and biochemical evidence. Concise animations and superb microscope footage of primitive cells show event...
Inside the living cell: how cells obtain energy
Describes the fundamental role of ATP in providing energy for all cell work. Examines the two deeply interrelated and biochemically similar processes of aerobic respiration and photosynthesis, and discusses the structure and function of chloroplast...
Inside the living cell: the cell - unit of life
This program shows the kinds of cells and emphasizes the fact that all cells have a common organization and how all cells carry out similar biochemical processes. Content: The Discovery of Cells; Cell Structures; Organelle Function; Cell Varieties; ...
Inside the living cell: the outer envelope
Here students become acquainted with the properties of the plasma membrane, how it governs the kinds of molecules that go in and out of cells, and how cells feed by engulfing (phagocytosis) and drink in fluids by pinocytosis. Content: Membrane Struc...
Inside the living cell: how cells reproduce
This program discusses how DNA replicates, how copy errors occur and are remedied by repair enzymes, and how DNA is compressed into chromosomes making possible mitosis and cell division. This highly visual tour of the processes that keep life opera...