Great courses (DVD)

Title from disc label

"Explore the building blocks of life: biochemistry and molecular biology"--container

"Course number 9572."

Contains 36 lectures; each lecture is approximately 30 minutes

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired

Lecturer: Professor Kevin Ahern, Oregon State University

Disc 1.

Biochemistry is the science of us -- Why water is essential for life -- Amino acids : 20 building blocks of life -- From peptide bonds to protein structure -- Protein folding, misfolding, and disorder -- Hemoglobin function follows structure --

Disc 2.

Enzymes' amazing speed and specificity -- Enzyme regulation in cells -- Fatty acids, fats, and other lipids -- Sugars : glucose and the carbohydrates -- ATP and energy transformations in cells -- Breaking down sugars and fatty acids --

Disc 3.

Metabolism meets at the citric acid cycle -- Energy harvesting in animals and plants -- How animals make carbs and fats -- Cholesterol, membranes, lipoproteins -- Metabolic control during exercise and rest -- How plants make carbs and other metabolites --

Disc 4.

Recycling nitrogen : amino acids, nucleotides -- Eating, antioxidants, and the microbiome -- Hormones, stress, and cell division -- Neurotransmitters, the brain, and addiction -- Biochemistry of our senses -- From biochemistry to molecular biology --

Disc 5.

DNA and RNA : information in structure -- DNA replication in bacteria ; PCR in the lab -- Chromosome replication, telomeres, aging -- DNA mismatch and excision repair -- DNA recombination, gene editing, CRISPR -- Transcribing DNA to RNA --

Disc 6.

Translating RNA into proteins -- Protein-synthesis controls and epigenetics -- Human genetic disease and gene therapy -- Cancer mechanisms and treatments -- Biotechnology, stem cells, synthetic biology -- Omics : genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics