Lockdown Embryology with Prof Alice Roberts #1: The first week

[@jonathanhurcombe]

Christ Alice, is there anything you can’t do? Brains the size of a galaxy, medical doctor, anthropologist, talented artist, excellent presenter / broadcaster / videographer.

[@evorock]

You missed off pilot as well lol

[@mleon2644]

I like that you very often explain the etymology of the words that are used in medical terminology and have Latin, Greek origin.

[@dianeterry8089]

I’ve been a Registered Massage Therapist for 25 years. Netter helped me learn anatomy by drawing or tracing the plates your kinetic visual style of teaching works the way my brain assimilates information THANKYOU Reviewing anatomy is so helpful.

[@lperera412]

These lectures are excellent, much more comprehensible to me than those on other KZbin channels with far more views. The lovely illustrations and gentle soothing voice help too! Thanks for making them freely available.

[@tanyeldogan5265]

Very cool! This series is an extraordinary example of excellent science communication. Not only is the artistic and explanatory quality of your illustrations outstanding. It's the exact opposite of the vast majority of science documentaries on tv. No loud pseudodramatic "background" music, no "fancy" 3D animation snippets, no "experts" panel in the bluebox. Instead calm, precise and immersive storytelling. That is "scientific brain slow food" at it's best - so delicious :-))

[@ps7365]

Fantastic stuff! Thanks for helping us to expand our knowledge during these trying times. Talk about a great time for scientific outreach. I view you as the Carl Sagan of this era. Different disciplines of course, but he had an infectious enthusiasm for his subjects and an ability to explain rather complex ideas to his audience. You share those characteristics with him and it is wonderful. Thank you!

[@gillpearson9214]

This is fantastic, I haven't studied this for 40 years and it all comes back to me - beautifully drawn too. Thank you

[@Neil_BT]

Fantastic! Beautifully illustrated too.

[@paulg4213]

I’m not a medical student but I found these videos along with Alice’s description exhilarating. The illustrations along with the descriptions are devine.

[@lynnshellyjunck117]

My husband and I went through IVF. I had an amazing dr and I remember so much of this being thoroughly explained. I remember thinking what an amazing process it was then, and you certainly elevated that particular lesson for me today.

[@gannon5409]

Beautiful. Thank you for all your work ✨🙏🏼🌸

[@sai2333]

Thank you for making these lectures.

[@bobisfab1294]

Brilliant video. All your drawings and explanations are superb! I wish my biology teachers had explained anatomy the way you do - I'd have been hooked! Thank you.

[@sarahlucas1999]

I love watching the illustrations come to life. This is beautiful, thanks for sharing :)

[@__ben__361]

Wow this is amazing. Just amazing. Shockingly good.

[@colsylvester639]

Beautiful illustrations Professor Roberts! Your accompanying voice over is very good too, there's a calming timbre to it. I've directed colleagues to this series as a learning tool for early pregnancy development and it's correlation with early pregnancy ultrasound appearances.

[@aliceroberts4107]

Col Sylvester Thank you for sharing. I’m glad it’s useful.

[@heaven77ish]

Such a calm and easy delivery of knowledge. Awesome.

[@JaccovanSchaik]

That was amazing. Loved the bits of animation.

[@CHRISTIAN30081975]

A very nice and very instructive video. Congratulations! The combination of the drawings and the narration with your soft voice, makes the video very pleasant. I will continue to watch the series. Thank you so much for your efforts and dedication. Greetings from Barcelona!

[@andrewmcclaren8780]

Delighted to find this series on KZbin, as I was having trouble following along with the illustrations on my Kindle while reading your book. Also enjoying Lockdown Anatomy.

[@tonybaker7453]

I learn so much from you in everything that I see, read or hear. Thank you Alice for sharing such wonderful stuff and your humble but amazing talent.

[@cathwn]

What a stunning video - thank you! Such a beautiful yet informative description of the female side of fertilisation/implantation. Looking forward to more!

[@SuperLiviloo]

You are brilliant Alice! Thank you. A home Ed mum.

[@nicolaapps6889]

Absolutely brilliant Alice! Thank you so much

[@alicemcco6214]

Thank you so much! First you spoil us with your lockdown anatomy series and now this... Clearly a gifted artist too. Am feeling rather an underachieving Alice now 😉👍

[@erikmaronde2244]

Simply wonderfully done and presented👍🎉🖖

[@domramsey]

Should you ever decide to give up teaching, writing, anthropology and everything else you do, you could easily have a career in animation. Simply wonderful, and it drew me in to a subject I didn't think I needed to know about until now!

[@dewarfinch1]

All Illustrated by Alice Roberts too. Is there no end to this woman's talents?!

[@L0reburne]

Really educational Alice..the art is amazing too. Keep up the good work!

[@philmonk10]

I love these, interesting and also very relaxing to watch.

[@rajsingha1099]

Fascinating as always.

[@matthewrajan9248]

Amazing video - I wish I'd had these in medical school! Prof Roberts has a very calming voice :)

[@nidat5057]

Amazing video. Gives a nice insight into embryology.

[@marktuen-matthews6292]

Thank you Alice for this new series. I've just bought your book The Complete Human Body: The Definitive Visual Guide to go with your Lockdown Anatomy series. All very interesting and relaxing to watch. I'm now going to practice my artistic skills by copying your drawings.

[@frankjones7727]

reminds me of embryology circa 1968 with Prof Jack Pritchard drawing on the blackboard in coloured chalks, with running commentary. He would have been delighted to see your magnificent videos

[@thelifeandtimesofjames4273]

Very clever way of animating it all. Great information and so clearly explained.

[@micahbinns2740]

Great evolution book Dr. Roberts im no scientist but i love studying and learning

[@stephaniemaria9095]

Love this, thank you, now following your series! You are making something so complex accessible and the illustration really helps, thankyou:-)

[@Swarajchaini]

Phenomenal! Love this art😍

[@RoebixS]

just starting my dissertation that will involve studying blastocysts and this video makes for a lovely introduction into the topic! thank you!

[@aliceroberts4107]

Sean Booth So glad it’s useful. Good luck with the dissertation.

[@dianeterry8089]

I just purchased your book The Incredible Likeness of Being in the digital format thanks for all you do 💕

[@xy3394]

Recently discoverd your amazing book and now this stuff...♥great work & dedicated professor!👏

[@paulmitchell9230]

This was wonderful!

[@itsBiologue]

This is so beautifully illustrated! 🤩

[@sajjadkhan9710]

Excellent work.

[@wypy817]

Everything is so beautiful here i was feeling so sleepy studying anatomy you make me feel so great studying this beautiful subject 😊 thank you 💕

[@plasticanatomy]

Thank you for the inspiration Alice. I was looking at the app on 3d4medical, also very inspirational. You definitely have a fantastic way of communicating anatomy, and its been interesting to see your recent videos.

[@silverchain6182]

Hell yeah!! That was ace!

[@anshulmishra8892]

You are fantastic👌

[@black_jack_meghav]

Thanks prof! 🙏

[@mustafabozoglan]

Thanks to Alice Roberts, who shared her knowledge.

[@malikaalibdat7079]

love love love 😍

[@terrymahlich4673]

Thank You

[@Monpjc]

Dear Alice, Thank you for making this video, I find human biology amazing and have enjoyed all your Lockdown videos. I have followed you for many years, from the Incredible Human Journey, learned about Microcidira and even done a DNA test to look at my own history. Please can I ask if you can post links to your other accounts in the discription as I did not know you had a Flickr account. Many thanks and stay safe.

[@kyleroot2676]

Hey!! Shout out Dr. Robert Peterson at Central Michigan University College of Medicine. He loves you and your material! Especially when the bilaminar forms!!!! Can we get a signed copy of something for him??

[@phonotical]

be fun to make this video on that dinosaur embryo they made recently :)

[@nu.wa.n]

Lovely illustrations. May I ask what sort of pencil you are using?

[@lfcrags9715]

do u have a print out of this completed sheet, would be good for revision

[@noornzar9305]

❤❤❤

[@مؤيد-ز4ث]

Can you continue explaining embryology and and anatomy.

[@suvrotica]

🎉❤

[@brookemaloney5205]

I would like to know what type of pencil Alice uses in this illustration.

[@theprincessmedicdiaries]

when the male and female pronuclei fuse, do they then have 46 chromosomes or 46 pairs of chromosomes? I thought it was the former but just wanted to confirm if I'm wrong!

[@nml1930]

😮❤️

[@phonotical]

How do the cells gain mass?

[@davidroach8277]

Very interesting... didn't think I'd like this for some reason but I enjoyed it and now it's making me think how do identical twins develope...is it 2 identical eggs and 2 identical sperm or some other reason?🤔 I'll shut up now.

[@aliceroberts4107]

David Roach Embryology is endlessly fascinating. Identical twins come from a single fertilised egg!

[@DV-dt9sq]

Fas-ci-na-ting!! I didn't know that sperm is acidic😮. Usualy I get impresed by this incidental comments haha. Being an painter (loving science) I was enjoying watching a drawings also. Wonderfull.

[@mrsanity]

The sperm isn't acidic, the vagina is. The semen that the sperm swim in help protect it from the hostile environment. It's hostile because if it weren't, all sorts of gribblies that weren't intended to go in there could get up to mischief unimpeded.

[@phonotical]

I am going to ask something stupid: is it dna all that is required to fertilize an egg, if so, what is to stop some blood,maybe from a lesion or ulcer or whichever, getting into an egg, and then giving birth to your own twin...

[@theLukedishwasher]

Not wishing to deviate too much from this wonderful presentation but I can’t help wondering how evolution can claim ownership of these series of finely tuned and interdependent stages of development. The gradual and blind incremental steps advocated in the theory of evolution surely could not have occurred simultaneously let alone in large enough relevant mutations, even when factoring in the immensity of time available - remove just one of these stages and the process would fail. This isn’t an attempt to claim You know Who waved a wand in just seven days. Help!

[@aliceroberts4107]

Lukedishwasher And I can help! www.amazon.co.uk/Incredible-Unlikeliness-Being-Evolution-Making/dp/1848664796

[@theLukedishwasher]

Alice Roberts Thank you Alice, into the unknown I go. Can’t wait!

[@jdt2003]

How does the sperm know to look for the egg?

[@DV-dt9sq]

Yes...I was wandering that too. How does it "know" where to go hahaha. Is it guided by some yort of chemical imbalance or ?

[@aliceroberts4107]

jdt2003 The egg emits chemical signals - so the sperm can “sniff it out”

[@johnbarnes6568]

Looks like some weird sheep, can't wait until you get to the sciatic nerve on your journey through the human body, I wonder if it's common for your leg to give way without notice. I don't want you to think this is some private consultation thingy, but i thought I'd just ask. Sorry this has not much to do with your video, keep up the amazing work.

[@emilyscrivener4669]

slay

[@paulpaul8221]

How can anyone not be pro-life after watching this video, thanks for sharing Dr.Roberts.