This video is part of a 3 video series focused on the origin of vaccines, how they work, and their role in public health. These videos were produced in collaboration with high school students at San Francisco public schools and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
Vaccines 101: How Vaccines Work
This video is part of a 3 video series focused on the origin of vaccines, how they work, and their role in public health. These videos were produced in collaboration with high school students at San Francisco public schools and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
What are preprints?
Preprints facilitate rapid communication of a manuscript containing scientific results from one scientist, or a a group of scientists, to the entire scientific community. This video produced in collaboration with ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in biology) explains what preprints are, their benefits, how they differ from journal publications, and how scientists can use both…
Progress and Promise of Stem Cell Research: HIV
What is the newest research being pursued to treat HIV? In this video, you will learn about a new technology being tested to make immune cells HIV resistant. This video was produced in collaboration with Americans For Cures and explains how stem cell research, funded by California’s Proposition 71: the California Stem Cell Research and…
The Science-Policy Cycle: Managing the threat of antibiotic resistance
What do antibiotics do? What’s all the fuss about antibiotic resistance? Is it really a problem? In this video, we use the example of antibiotic resistance to learn how science can inform policy and guide future treatments. This video was produced with the Science Policy Group at UCSF.
Vaccines 101: What will it take to develop an HIV vaccine?
What are the challenges to developing an HIV vaccine? How do vaccines work and what are they made of? And come to think of it, how do we know that they work at all! Find out the answers to all of these questions and more in this HIV vaccine video, produced in collaboration with Bridge…
Clinical Trials 101: How do we develop and test a vaccine?
In this video,we describe the clinical trial process and what it takes to bring an effective vaccine to the population at large. What is a double-blind study? What is placebo? What is the difference between drugs in phase 1, 2, and 3? How long do clinical trials take? Why do we need clinical trials? What…
Explaining Ebola: The science behind the outbreak
Learn about the Ebola virus and the current 2014 outbreak. How does the Ebola virus infect humans? Why do certain patients survive and others don’t? What treatments are currently being tested? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this video.
Demystifying HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
PrEP, short for pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a relatively new HIV prevention strategy in which an HIV-negative person takes a daily pill to reduce the risk for HIV infection. PrEP has made headlines recently—and the messages haven’t always been clear. Watch this video to get the facts about how PrEP works and see three PrEP myths…
We Are Not Alone: How the Human “Planet” Is Colonized and a Microbiome Is Built
The gut microbiome is an emerging field that has been linked to many diseases and conditions affecting each and everyone of us from metabolism to neurological diseases! Have you ever wondered what all the fuss is about when it comes to the gut microbiome? Well now is your chance to find out. Learn where the…