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Against the stunning background of one of the Earth’s most inaccessible and unspoilt landscapes, the programme follows two scientific researchers. Beatrix Schramm is working against the clock to try and...
A model representing the hydraulics of the circulatory system and designed to show: 1) the relationship between cardiac output, total peripheral resistance, and the arterial mean blood pressure; 2) the...
Examines how seals cope with being air-breathing mammals and yet fully functional underwater. Follows three research projects carried out by the Sea Mammals Research Unit based at the British Antarctic...
On a rain-swept Welsh mountainside members of the 1994 British Mount Everest Medical Expedition test their physiological monitoring equipment. Having retreated to the dry, the doctors describe the...
Techniques for enhancing or preventing the chances of successful conception fall into two groups: the introduction or removal of physical barriers to the process of fertilisation, and the manipulation of the...
An introduction to the study of whole-animal biology and the techniques that are becoming available to obtain data from animals that are free-ranging in their natural habitat. A major theme in the programme...
Shows examples of the ways in which reptiles can regulate their body temperature. Illustrates various techniques used for measuring temperature, including the attachment of heat-sensitive labels,...
Looks at how scientists working on frogs established that the genes in the cell of an adult organism are present in the embryo, and that some sort of differential expression of the genes, with some genes...
Whales can dive to a depth of up to 2000 metres, and they can stay down on a single breath for over an hour. Looks at reseach into how whales solve the problem of diving so deeply. Most of the programme was...
After 30 years of research the actual mechanism of muscle contraction is still not certain. Shows a team at New York State University investigating the horseshoe crab, Limulus, which apparently disobeys the...
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