Amazing molecular-biology video
Oct. 15th, 2006 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackhttp://cosmicvariance.com/2006/09/29/the-cell-is-like-tron/
It's a video of the major processses happening inside a cell: building and unbuilding of the microtubules and actin fibres that are the cell's skeleton and reinforcing rods, transcribing enzymes whizzing down a stream of DNA and writing RNA, the ribosomes of the translation machinery zipping down an RNA molecule and extruding a protein, kinesin walking down a tubule carrying a vesicle. It's pretty accurate - the proteins have the shapes which crystallographers worked out for them.
Some of you have already seen it, but while talking to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aldabra after tidying up her garden this afternoon I discovered that she hadn't.
It's a video of the major processses happening inside a cell: building and unbuilding of the microtubules and actin fibres that are the cell's skeleton and reinforcing rods, transcribing enzymes whizzing down a stream of DNA and writing RNA, the ribosomes of the translation machinery zipping down an RNA molecule and extruding a protein, kinesin walking down a tubule carrying a vesicle. It's pretty accurate - the proteins have the shapes which crystallographers worked out for them.
Some of you have already seen it, but while talking to
aldabra after tidying up her garden this afternoon I discovered that she hadn't.
