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Welcome to the SimpleBiologist where I take new research papers from the world of biology and turn them into fun animated videos! You can find me @SimpleBiologist on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or on my website www.simplebiologist.com Video by Kate Bredbenner Music by Jonathan Firestone

How do coronaviruses work and how do they make us sick? A huge thank you to Anthony Fehr and Stanley Perlman for their review "Coronaviruses: An Overview of Their Replication and Pathogenesis" that was helpful in the making of this video. Video by Kate Bredbenner Music by Jonathan Firestone For more videos and biology content go to simplebiologist.com

Tick bites cause about 329,000 cases of Lyme Disease per year! To prevent this vector-borne disease, we need to know more about how ticks acquire, maintain, and transmit disease. Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine are studying the tick immune system to give us some answers. -Discussion on the tick immune system is from: 1) Shaw et al. “Infection-derived lipids elicit an immune deficiency circuit in arthropods.” Nature Comm (2017). https://ift.tt/2SXho8G 2) McClure Carroll et al. “p47 licenses activation of the Immune Deficiency Pathway in the tick Ixodes scapularis.” PNAS (2018). https://ift.tt/2CkPaPG -Lyme Disease numbers from https://ift.tt/2STKtl6 **This video was commissioned and paid for by the Pedra Lab at the University of Maryland School of Medicine** SimpleBiologist provides a quick description of the newest biology research. Host: Kate Bredbenner visit: https://ift.tt/2p5IP5r twitter: http://twitter.com/SimpleBiologist facebook: https://ift.tt/2oZIttZ instagram: https://ift.tt/2qMGXem Music: "Inspired" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License https://ift.tt/oKTIFM

This video is for the 2018 Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science Flame Challenge! It's designed for 11 year-olds, but it's really good for anyone. Want to know the difference between weather and climate? What about the measurements that define climate? Maybe a little about climate change? Well, it's all in there! Enjoy! SimpleBiologist provides a quick description of the newest biology research. Host: Kate Bredbenner visit: http://ift.tt/2p5IP5r twitter: http://twitter.com/SimpleBiologist facebook: http://ift.tt/2oZIttZ instagram: http://ift.tt/2qMGXem

Are you pumped about the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine? Me too! Learn all about the work and why it was so impressive that it got the Nobel Prize! This video comes complete with fruit flies, molecular mechanisms, and a special history on molecular biology. Exciting stuff. Discussion on the molecular basis for the circadian rhythm in fruit flies from: 1. Siwicki, Eastman, Petersen, Rosbash, and Hall. “Antibodies to the period gene product of Drosophila reveal diverse tissue distribution and rhythmic changes in the visual system” Neuron (1988). http://ift.tt/2xWV9Z0 2. Liu, Zwiebel, Hinton, Benzer, Hall, and Rosbash. “The period gene encodes a predominantly nuclear protein in adult Drosophila” Journal of Neuroscience (1992). http://ift.tt/2xjOrIt 3. Vosshall, Price, Sehgal, Saez, and Young. “Block in nuclear localization of period protein by a second clock mutation, timeless” Science (1994). http://ift.tt/2xW7GvW 4. Price, Blau, Rothenfluh, Abodeely, Kloss, and Young. “double-time is a novel Drosophila clock gene that regulates PERIOD protein accumulation” Cell (1998). http://ift.tt/2zrHGpN SimpleBiologist provides a quick description of the newest biology research. Host: Kate Bredbenner visit: http://ift.tt/2p5IP5r twitter: http://twitter.com/SimpleBiologist facebook: http://ift.tt/2oZIttZ instagram: http://ift.tt/2qMGXem Music: "Odyssey" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://ift.tt/oKTIFM "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://ift.tt/oKTIFM

People with lighter skin tones are far more likely to get skin cancer! What if we could help those people produce more of their own melanin to protect themselves and lower their skin cancer risk? What if we could do it without UV? Maybe soon we'll be able to! Discussion on tanning without UV from Mujahid et al. “A UV-independent topical small-molecule approach for melanin production in human skin” Cell Reports (2017). http://ift.tt/2sg6Rec CDC Skin Cancer Data: http://ift.tt/2jXSMLX SimpleBiologist provides a quick description of the newest biology research. Host: Kate Bredbenner visit: http://ift.tt/2p5IP5r twitter: http://twitter.com/SimpleBiologist tumblr: http://ift.tt/2qMUy5y facebook: http://ift.tt/2oZIttZ instagram: http://ift.tt/2qMGXem Music: "Odyssey" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://ift.tt/oKTIFM Beach Scene from Videezy.com

We have 2 meters of DNA in each of our cells! How does it all fit in there? In this video, I discuss some new research that might tell us how the cell does it. Discussion on DNA packing in the nucleus from Ou et al. “ChromEMT: Visualizing 3D chromatin structure and compaction in interphase and mitotic cells” Science (2017). http://ift.tt/2vACL86 SimpleBiologist provides a quick description of the newest biology research. Host: Kate Bredbenner visit: http://ift.tt/2p5IP5r twitter: http://twitter.com/SimpleBiologist tumblr: http://ift.tt/2qMUy5y facebook: http://ift.tt/2oZIttZ instagram: http://ift.tt/2qMGXem Music: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (http://ift.tt/1bFo3O7) Artist: http://audionautix.com/

Have you ever nursed a sick plant back to health? What about throwing away a sick plant? This video goes into how the plant immune system works to keep the plants in your life happy and healthy! I also chat about how the little quirks of the plant immune system can be used to engineer a better disease resistant plant! Discussion on the plant immune system and creating a disease-resistant plant from Xu et al. “Global translational reprogramming is a fundamental layer of immune regulation in plants” Nature (2017). http://ift.tt/2sKuNok and Xu et al. “uORF-mediated translation allows engineered plant disease resistance without fitness costs” Nature (2017). http://ift.tt/2rZW9db SimpleBiologist provides a quick description of the newest biology research. Host: Kate Bredbenner visit: http://ift.tt/2p5IP5r twitter: http://twitter.com/SimpleBiologist tumblr: http://ift.tt/2qMUy5y facebook: http://ift.tt/2oZIttZ instagram: http://ift.tt/2qMGXem Music: "Odyssey" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://ift.tt/oKTIFM