Wow. This is one amazing visualization. This is a CGI rendered view of a live white blood cell. It show how some of the fantastic molecules inside the cell work together through cascading reactions to make life. Amazing.
It talks about the cascade of chemical reactions that occur when a white blood cell encounters a site of inflammation. it’s really not that hard to follow the visuals, even if the narration sounds mostly Greek to me…
Above is a shot of a motor protein “walking” along a microtubule dragging a sack of proteins. Amazing to think the motion is just the atoms at the “feet” end of the protein reacting with the attraction/repulsion of the microtubule protien wall molecules. So cool.
This one is amazing too! The thin blurry line is a type of DNA/RNA that’s zipping through a couple of proteins due to their charge. As the RNA courses through the various charges, a new protein is assembled and due to the shape and charge of the assembler proteins, gets injected into the cellular organelle {mitochondrea etc}. I do remember high school science, but it wasn’t this visually stunning for sure.
The video is truly great, check out the super speed version of Inner Life
Proteins are fascinating. They’re like little perfect machines.
Proteomics sounds really promising. If only we could someday understand all these systems and processes. Maybe brain implants will self-assemble from virus delivered instructions?
I was fascinated by Biology in school (I got a very high mark in OAC Bio).
It was mostly chemistry (the Krebs cycle is fascinating) so then I took OAC Chem which was mostly math and it killed it for me.
One of the most interesting concepts to me is the idea of proteins being so important to the cycle. If DNA is the “blueprint” for life, proteins are the “contractors” – just as if you deliver the same set of plans to two different contractors, the results may be vastly different depending upon the materials used, the quality of the builders, etc.
Proteomics may prove to be just as beneficial as genetics to biology.