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So let's look, for example, just at three cells here. They are equivalent in potential, they could give rise to any region of the nervous system, but by chance they occupy different posit...

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Steve: In the last chapter of the your book, you tell us the story at the beginning where you've just spoken to a group of businessmen and one of them comes up to you afterwards and says, "I thought y...

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We're going to be looking at these electrical impulses, these flashes, which are called action potentials, are crossing three neurons in the circuit here. And as we look in higher po...

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Steve: So let's talk about Remarkable Creatures. This is your newest book. First of all, for anybody who hasn't read Making of the Fittest or Endless Forms, you should go out and read those immediatel...

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Well, let me show you this now, in a video that Mike Oldstone at Scripps Institute in San Diego put together. Let's run this. This is a cytotoxic T cell that you see on the top. And ...

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You remember messenger RNA and new viral proteins being made essentially to assemble new virions, but something else can happen to those viral proteins. There are host proteins called ubi...

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‘Matches! Light your fires with my matches! Would you like to buy some matches sir? What about you madam? They are the best kind! Strike them against any wall! They will burn! Someone must want some m...

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Once a gene has been located and transcribed into mRNA it must first be edited before it can be translated into a protein. This editing process is called splicing. It involves removing ...