Producer: NIH, Apr 2024, 1x 5’ online animation

The National Human Genome Research Institute explores how natural selection leads to changes in our DNA code that improve our chances of survival through the history of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and the Bubonic plague. A straightforward exploration of genetics' impact on health shows potential for progress in medical science.

Writer: Lasker Foundation/ Ed Prosser, September 2023, 1x 4’ animation

The 2023 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award honors James G. Fujimoto, David Huang, and Eric A. Swanson for the invention of optical coherence tomography, a technology that revolutionized ophthalmology—allowing rapid detection of diseases of the retina that impair vision.

Video Producer: Massive Science/ Johns Hopkins, July 2021, 1x 4’ animation

A speculative look at the future from the perspective of an RNA molecule if she was able to take agency for her own destiny. Instigated by an NSF funded project that is using synthetic biology to investigate the origins of life — RNA imagines a future based on the past, one that leads to insight on RNA-based viruses, the limits of fully synthetic genomes, and potential extraterrestrial life.

Producer: Massive Science/ NIH, Nov 2020, 1x 5’ online animation

A collaboration between The National Human Genome Research Institute and the science media company Massive Science, stemming from a shared belief in showcasing an emerging and vital effort in genomics--one that will impact every one of us: a reference genome to convey the genomic diversity of the human species.

Producer: Massive Science, June 2018, 7x 4 online animations

In the final animated poetic rumination of the implications of Frankenstein ‘creating life,’ Britt Wray, science communicator, Sara Imari Walker, theoretical physicist, and Genevieve Dewar, paleoanthropologist and archaeologist, discuss how open, ethical debates between researchers and the public are the only way forward when dealing with the unknown. With whirlwind animation by the stop-motion animator Caitlin Craggs and sound by Skillbard.

Producer: Massive Science, June 2018, 7x 4 online animations

What are the implications for humanity when we create intelligence, or try to, in non-human forms? Margaret Wertheim, author and historian of physics and math, discusses the implications of ignoring the ethics of AI. She is joined by Daniel Bear, a Stanford neuroscientist and AI researcher, and Braden Allenby, an engineer and ethicist. Animated by the cheeky Joe Bichard with sound by Skillbard.

Producer: Massive Science, June 2018, 7x 4 online animations

Braden Allenby, an engineer and ethicist at Arizona State University and Conor Walsh, a biomedical engineer at Harvard and founder of the Harvard Biodesign Lab, discuss what our bodies might look like in the future. What does it mean to be human when we can use new tools to alter our phenotype? Is the use of engineering to change the human form new or are we simply using new methods to satisfy an evolutionary desire for change? With explosive animation by the animation team at Moth Studio, and sound by Skillbard.

Producer: Massive Science, June 2018, 7x 4 online animations

Have you ever wondered about the evolution of human tool use? How are Paleolithic stone tools related, cognitively, to the development of genetic engineering tools like CRISPR? Genevieve Dewar, a paleoanthropologist and archaeologist at the University of Toronto, and Kate Krueger, a molecular biologist and research director at the nonprofit New Harvest, explain some of the larger implications of our desire to mold the world around us. Wild and woolly stop-motion animation by Amia Yokoyama with sound by Skillbard.

Producer: Massive Science, June 2018, 7x 4 online animations

David Chalmers, renowned philosopher and cognitive scientist and Danbee Kim, a comparative neuroscientist, tease apart the complicated nature of behavior and its relationship to neural circuitry as well as the environment. What exactly makes us conscious and why? Animated by the amazing Rosanna Wan with sound by Skillbard.

Producer: Massive Science, June 2018, 7x 4 online animations

Sara Imari Walker, a theoretical physicist and astrobiologist at Arizona State University, and Caleb Scharf, an exoplanetary scientist and astrobiologist at Columbia University, discuss how intelligence and life may have emerged from chaos. We might not be able to recognize life other than our own, and this presents a philosophical and scientific challenge to humans in the universe. Animated by ARC, a beautiful animation studio created by Angela Phillips and Phoebe Halstead with sound by Skillbard.

Producer: Massive Science, June 2018, 7x 4 online animations

Britt Wray, science communicator, co-host of BBC’s Tomorrow’s World, writer, and producer joins ecologist and biologist Ben Novak to discuss the permeable boundary between life and death – and humans and nature. Animated by the talented Daniela Sherer with sound by Skillbard.