With the growth and spreading of broadband around the globe, more and more high bandwidth, content rich sites have been popping up. One great example of this is Youtube!

Well, it’s good to see that the science community hasn’t kept behind and they have either used the services of these already large websites like Youtube and Google Videos, or have gone along and started their own smaller but more specific sites, namely DNATube and JoVE.

Youtube and Google Video are basically the same thing ever since Google acquired Youtube for a gazillion dollars. You can search for videos in both sites by using the Google Video search page.
Ok, so some searching at these two giants can render you some great videos related to the life sciences, from lab techniques to animations of the inner cell works to home/class-made videos on biochemistry.

DNATubeIf you don’t want to search and find, you can give DNAtube a try and browse through their available videos. They are obviously all related to the life sciences, in particular DNA!

JoVEAnd then there is JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, that describes itself as “an online research journal employing visualization to increase reproducibility and transparency in biological sciences”.

JoVE is currently in it’s 4th issue and there is some cool videos regarding microbial communities.

Ok, so that is just a small pick of video meets life sciences round up in 4 websites. There are certainly more. Much more…

Now, although videos are cool, one thing that us internet/computer users enjoy are screencasts. And if the screencasts are related to science software, then that makes it even cooler!

So, tipped by Deepak over at bbgm I’ve found out about Bioscreencast.
Basically, it’s youtube-stlye science related screencast website. They describe and explain what it is as follows:

Bioscreencast

Bioscreencast.com is a website that has video tutorials or screencasts for the biological sciences. Currently, these tutorials are created by researchers across various biology disciplines. Our goal is to build a community of life science researchers and provide a platform to share knowledge on usage of tools that aid research.

Although there are other screencast websites, this one seems to be the first one I’ve found dedicated to biological sciences and related fields. So, thumbs up to that.

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