The 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 textile merchant with a talent for making microscopes. Moving from van Leeuwenhoek’s discovery of “animalcules” to Robert Hooke’s cork studies and coinage of the term cell, the film then focuses on Joseph Jackson Lister’s multi-lens microscope technology, Robert Brown’s identification of cell nuclei, and the collaboration of Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden. Robert Remak’s groundbreaking findings about cell division form the climax of the episode. $169.95 QGR41701 • DVD / VOD
The Chemistry of Life: Milestones in Genetics Cells are, in a sense, just tiny bags of chemicals— so what “instructs” them to divide and function? This program shows how biologists addressed the question during the 19th and 20th centuries. Starting with Friedrich Miescher’s discovery of nuclein, or DNA, the film examines Theodor Boveri’s work with sea urchins, which clarified the role of chromosomes, as well as Thomas Hunt Morgan’s study of inheritance in fruit flies and his introduction of the term gene. The contributions of Frederick Griffith, Maurice Wilkins, and the under-recognized Rosalind Franklin are held up as milestones on the path to the Watson-Crick double-helix model. Walter Gehring’s mutation studies are also featured. $169.95 QGR41702 • DVD / VOD
The Spark of Life: Tinkering with the Genetic Toolbox From hydras to humans, every organism on Earth can trace its ancestry back to the first primitive cell. Will biotechnology one day create a cell outside of that family tree? This program looks at 21st-century genetic science and its search for the secret of life’s creation. Background information highlights the Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis and its vision of a prebiotic soup as well as Stanley Miller’s famous experiment, the central role of RNA in protein synthesis, and Herbert Boyer’s achievement in gene splicing. A visit with Dr. Stephen del Cardayre of biotech start-up LS9 reveals ways to remodel an existing cell—while Dr. George Church of Harvard Medical School hints at building one from scratch. $169.95 QGR41703 • DVD / VOD
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