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We're showing the students this video during lab this week It's some pretty darn incredible computer animation showing the molecular interactions within a white blood cell when it receives a signal to go to the site of an injury. The amount of research that must've gone into determining the movements of everything must've been astronomical. I'm particularly fond of the assembly/disassembly of microtubules/actin, and the ADORABLENESS that is the motor proteins (there's a picture of them on the site to get to the video), chugging tirelessly along, carrying their big huge vescicles. So cute. <3
I'm mainly posting it because it's so pretty. If you want to try and glean some idea of what's going on, though, there's a jargon-filled version of the video here. It's a crash course in cell biology! XD
We're showing the students this video during lab this week It's some pretty darn incredible computer animation showing the molecular interactions within a white blood cell when it receives a signal to go to the site of an injury. The amount of research that must've gone into determining the movements of everything must've been astronomical. I'm particularly fond of the assembly/disassembly of microtubules/actin, and the ADORABLENESS that is the motor proteins (there's a picture of them on the site to get to the video), chugging tirelessly along, carrying their big huge vescicles. So cute. <3
I'm mainly posting it because it's so pretty. If you want to try and glean some idea of what's going on, though, there's a jargon-filled version of the video here. It's a crash course in cell biology! XD
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Date: 2009-01-25 07:11 am (UTC)It's like an adorable, super-efficient alien world.