New movie published: Good Milk / Bad Milk

We have just published the last short movie of the Evolution-of-Life project. The movie shows what Joachim Burger (University of Mainz) and Sarah Tishkoff (University of Pennsylvania) have discovered about milk and why some people can digest milk whereas others can't. The movie is available in English, with German or French subtitles. 

The beautiful and funny illustrations were made by Anna Jreisat.

Credits
Directors : Robert Sigl, Bernhard Rübe, Brant Backlund & Marion Hartl - Script : Lawrence Martin & Pleuni Pennings - Camera operator : Robert Sigl, Bernhard Rübe, Brant Backlund - Editor : Lawrence Martin - Animations : Kerstin Feurle - Illustrations : Anna Jreisat - Music : Seiji Nair - Audio Post-Production: Paul Darling - "Clean lab" footage : Alan Cooper & Jeremy Austin - Executive Producer : Pleuni Pennings - Production : LMU Munich (2012).

Spanish subtitled "Mutations - selection: the bacteria resist"

Surf, share, comment…and if the participation age of the Internet would even be more?A great example of active contribution has just come up for the “Evolution of life” project.Marcelo Oré Vásquez, medical doctor from Mexico, sent us a Spanish translation to the voices from the movie “Mutations – selection: the bacteria resist”

Marcelo: “Generally speaking, Mexico and Latin America are countries... where people have been used for many many years to self-medicate, including with antibiotics!!!Personally, I know a lot of cases, including relatives and friends! It's really terrible... Recently (2 or 3 years ago) the Secretariat of Health has finally put an end to this, making it compulsory for drug stores to sell antibiotics only to those people showing a valid medical prescription for the antibiotic to be sold.”

You can now view the movie with its Spanish subtitles on our youtube channel:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYIBTLEiNSo

It’s the opportunity to remind you that we already had this excellent example of user’s contribution, as Sorina and Daniel Andriev have sent us Romanian translations for « Darwin on the evolution trail », « O as Origin » and « An evolutionary arms race ».
On your demand we could envisage to create burn-in Romanian subtitles.«

Muchas gracias » to Marcelo and « mulţumesc” to Sorina and Daniel!

Text transcripts for the simulations

Text transcripts for the simulations are now available online in order to make the content more accessible and to help teachers using the simulations with their students in countries of other languages than those proposed on the web site.

You will find in the "download" section under each simulation a new link (text transcript). See here:
http://www.evolution-of-life.com/en/explore/simulation/fiche/the-flow-of-genetic-information.html

Simulation "The flow of genetic information" now online

The cell is a structure that is criss-crossed by flows: flows of energy, matter, and information. The major carrier of the flows of information is the genetic material that holds genetic information. This consists of a molecule with a relatively simple structure: DNA. In effect, there are 4 bases combined in this molecule.How can a molecule with a seemingly simple structure contain all the information on an individual’s characteristics? How is this information expressed? How is this information preserved during cell division whether it is mitosis or meiosis? Animated sequences plunge us into and guide us through this mystery. Grab on to one of the passing genetic flows and come surf!

http://www.evolution-of-life.com/en/explore/simulation/fiche/the-flow-of-genetic-information.html

Video about the making-of "Evolution of life"

The MEDEA Awards organizers (www.medea-awards.com) produced a video on the background and making-of about "Evolution of life".

The video is here: http://youtu.be/dFqj-scjAHM

Teaching document “Evolution in fast motion - Resistance to HIV”

The first teaching document produced by our collaborators from the University of Münster is now online. The web page (http://www.evolution-of-life.com/en/teach/evolution-in-fast-motion.html#c251) offers plenty of background information, teaching material and teaching advices about the resistance to HIV.


"From single-celled organisms to human populations, viruses affect all life on earth, often determining what will survive. But viruses themselves also evolve. New viruses such as the AIDS-causing HIV-1, may be the only biological entities that researchers can actually witness come into being, providing a real-time example of evolution in action."

"Darwin on the evolution trail" at Documentary Film Festival -360 Dok

The animation movie "Darwin on the evolution trail" is in the official selection at the Russian Documentary Film Festival - 360 Dok from 23. september to 2nd october 2011 in Moscow.

The idea of the festival is to give the audience an opportunity to watch the most interesting and topical documentary movies mentioned by biggest international festivals and to look for new ideas and forms of expression of scientific thought and research process with language of cinema