Wednesday, February 19, 2014

BIO-scars

The 86th Academy Awards are creeping up on us but they are going to be boring for one more time as they have left out the most important category again; the most interesting science-related video!!!

Luckily, there is always the not_one_more_biostory team to fill in such gaps.


Here are five very cool videos of 2013.

Which is going to be the winner?!? Oh, what a nail-bitter!!!

Title: StemCellShorts
Writers: Ben Paylor, a PhD candidate in Experimental Medicine at the University of British Columbia
             Mike Long, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto
Animation: David Murawsky
Music: James Wallace
Playing (voices):
Dr. Jim Till, who, along with Dr. Ernest McCulloch, first identified stem cells from bone marrow in 1961.
Dr. Janet Rossant, Chief of Research at SickKids Hospital, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Mick Bhatia, Director of the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institut, Ontario, Canada

Storyline: A series of short animation films giving answers to questions regarding stem cells.



Title: Celebrating Crystallography: An animated Adventure
Writers: Royal Institution
Animation:company 12foot6
Playing (narration):
Prof Stephen Curry, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College Londo, UK

Storyline: The film explores the history of crystallography, a technique used to elucidate the three-dimensional structure of molecules.



Title: Chromosome and Kinetochore
Writers: Narrative of the textbook "E.O. Wilson's Life on Earth"
Animation: WEHI.TV/ Drew Berry

Storyline: The film depicts a reconstruction of the organisation and structural features of DNA inside a chromosome of a living cell



Title: Made Simple...Stephen Hawking's Big Idea
Writers: Alok Jha, Matt Hill, Paul Boyd/ The Guardian
Animation: Scriberia

Storyline: A film about black holes and their fate to shrink into nothingness and then explode with the energy of a million nuclear bombs. It rewinds to the big bang and the origin of the universe



Title: How Coffee affects your Brain
Writers (and Illustrated) by Dwayne Godwin and Jorge Cham
Animation: Jorge Cham
Playing (Narration) Meg Rosenburg


Storyline: How much coffee is too much coffee?


And the winner is...

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