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Reflections on the Current H1N1 Flu

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John M. Barry brings unsettling news from the frontlines of H1N1 research: this novel influenza virus is very hard to pin down. In spite of international scientific scrutiny, H1N1 continues to baffle and elude, worrying health officials defending against the pandemic, and challenging some ideas about influenza in general. Says Barry, “A lot of things we thought we knew, the virus demonstrates we knew wrong.”

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• Ciencias de la Salud

Morphing Embryos: Human Embryo

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Análisis comparativo del desarrollo embrioario del humano, del cerdo, de un ave y de un pez, mediante videos por separado de cada embrión.
En este recurso se contribuye a la identificación de estructuras externas del embrión y comparación de similitudes de los seres vivos indicados en las primeras fases de desarrollo.

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• Ciencias de la Salud

Opening the Mind’s Eye- Learning to See

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It’s rare to find research that simultaneously advances basic science and brings good into people’s lives, but Pawan Sinha’s Project Prakash does precisely that. An investigator of human visual processing, Sinha is interested in how these brain mechanisms develop. For his work, Sinha realized the ideal subjects would be individuals who developed sight after blindness. Since he could not ethically create such an experimental population, he had to “rely on natural experiments” -- children born blind, but who recovered their vision.

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• Ciencias de la Salud

Mammalian Cloning and Stem Cell Therapy: Problems and Promise

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In this talk, leading genetist Rudolf Jaenisch delivers a clear overview of the challenges facing the cloning, dispelling many of the misconceptions about cloning that are pervasive in popular media. The Q&A session with the alumni audience led to animated discussions about the ethics of cloning. Jaenisch has been a leader in expressing the ethical issues connected to cloning and is strongly against the practice of human cloning.

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• Ciencias de la Salud

Screening People for External Contamination: How to Use Hand-held Radiation Survey Equipment

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An 18 minute skills training video that demonstrates how to screen people for external contamination using a hand held Geiger Mueller Detector. The program is designed for individuals assigned to conduct mass screening for contamination from radioactive materials following a large scale incident. The program may be used as pre-incident training or intra-incident just in time training. Supplementary training material on utilization of ion chambers and alpha scintillation detectors is provided. A downloadable graphic illustration of the pro

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• Ciencias de la Salud

Water quality

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This series of videos discusses water usage and the safety of drinking water.

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• Ciencias de la Salud

Animation of Antimicrobial Resistance

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The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) produced a nine-minute animation explaining how antimicrobial resistance both emerges and proliferates among bacteria. Over time, the use of antimicrobial drugs will result in the development of resistant strains of bacteria, complicating clinician's efforts to select the appropriate antimicrobial for treatment. Accordingly, efforts are underway in both veterinary and human medicine to preserve the effectiveness of these drugs.

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• Ciencias de la Salud

This is your brain in love

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Helen Fisher, one of the world's leading experts on romantic love, identifies four broad personality types, each governed by different chemical systems in the brain. Love is no longer blind, thanks to pioneering scientific research, based on her unique study of 40,000 men and women. Fisher explains each type, shows you how to identify your own type, and helps you use nature's chemistry to find and keep your life partner.

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• Ciencias de la Salud

Assignment Discovery: Genetic Defect and Leptin

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Learn about the gene defect that is present in red haired people who are obese. The case of Alina, a red-haired overweight 2-year old girl.

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• Ciencias de la Salud

Assignment Discovery: Obesity Fat Cell

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On the Discovery Channel series, "Assignment Discovery" we learn about how variants found in fat cell genes can contribute to obesity. A new approach to our understanding of fat cells tissues. What has been learned from fat mice.

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• Ciencias de la Salud