Link of the Day: The Inner Life of a Cell
Jan. 11th, 2008 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenA remarkable 8min film from Harvard showing an only slightly fanciful CGI rendering of the mechanisms within a white blood cell. You see how the cell moves, how it's structured, built and maintained and how it's activated. The primary artistic licence taken is that within the cell, things are drastically spaced out: if they were shown to scale, it would be too crowded to see what's going on.
Watch it here, with a dramatic musical soundtrack. The page also includes an interview with the animators.
On Harvard's own page here (first link, top left) you can also watch a version with a descriptive narration instead of the musical score. I have a now rather out-of-date biology degree and much of the narration goes straight over my head - 20 years is in biochemistry is equivalent to perhaps a century in vehicle technology or something. However, it gives you some vague idea of what's going on.
A wonderful insight into the workings of the cells of your own body, right now and all time, even as you watch the clip. Great stuff.
Watch it here, with a dramatic musical soundtrack. The page also includes an interview with the animators.
On Harvard's own page here (first link, top left) you can also watch a version with a descriptive narration instead of the musical score. I have a now rather out-of-date biology degree and much of the narration goes straight over my head - 20 years is in biochemistry is equivalent to perhaps a century in vehicle technology or something. However, it gives you some vague idea of what's going on.
A wonderful insight into the workings of the cells of your own body, right now and all time, even as you watch the clip. Great stuff.
