Category Archives: Chemistry of Life (Core & AHL)

Ultrasound technology: the next generation

Philips electronics have some good clips of their 4D ultrasound technology in action at their website:

Philips Medical Imagery

Worth a look in the reproduction topics.


This video is a great clip for comparing the old-school ultrasounds with the new 4D technology. She’s expecting triplets, too, which makes it more amazing. And here’s the clincher: listen to the soundtrack song carefully.

Digestion: Quarter Pounder with Cheese to quarter-pounder with wheeze.

Good-quality graphics. Teaching idea: give the video to students and ask them to record or narrate their own descriptions to go along with the images. It’s got to be better than the soundtrack provided here, and should fit the subject guide more closely.

Here is a brilliantly simple animation that shows how Flash should be used:

Digestion Animation –  by kitses.com

Next up, Robert Winston and a grisly stomach image – missing the lower intestines.

Finally, this one is nicely done: focuses on the enzymes of digestion and absorption through the villi.