×
Cargando

Jaap de Roode: How butterflies self-medicate

2 miembros

Just like us, the monarch butterfly sometimes gets sick thanks to a nasty parasite. But biologist Jaap de Roode noticed something interesting about the butterflies he was studying — infected female butterflies would choose to lay their eggs on a specific kind of plant that helped their offspring avoid getting sick. How do they know to choose this plant? Think of it as “the other butterfly effect” — which could teach us to find new medicines for the treatment of human disease.

Episodio siguiente
S2015E24 - Ricardo Semler: How to run a company with (almost) no rules

Episodios (221)

Temporada 2015

Series similares (10)

TED-Ed
TED-Ed
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
PBS Idea Channel
PBS Idea Channel
The Novel
The Novel
Tomorrow's World Today
Tomorrow's World Today
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Further Adventures of SuperTed
The Further Adventures of SuperTed
Todrick
Todrick
Tosh.0
Tosh.0
Ted
Ted