"Zombie" Parasite Takes Over Insects Through Mind Control

The COVID Moonshot is a global consortium with the goal of rapidly developing antivirals for COVID-19. Dr Lizbe Koekemoer of Oxford University describes how the project team effectively stores, manages, and shares data among multiple international partners.

Promoting a healthy gut microbiome may be a powerful strategy for lowering cholesterol and other heart attack risk factors. In this video, Reza Ghadiri presents research on molecules that can alter the bacterial population of intestines to a healthier state and how they have shown – through experiments in mice – that this reduces cholesterol levels and strongly inhibits the thickened-artery condition known as atherosclerosis.

In this installment of Teach Me in 10, Dr Wintermute provides a Synthetic Biology 101, teaching you everything that you need to know about this interesting area of science, in less than 10 minutes.