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Title: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: Sandwich on February 13, 2007, 12:07:53 am
Tres cool: http://aimediaserver.com/studiodaily/videoplayer/?src=harvard/harvard.swf&width=640&height=520
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: karajorma on February 13, 2007, 12:34:04 pm
Very cool. :yes:
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: Charismatic on February 13, 2007, 12:37:06 pm
Lol in the first 30 secs i saw something. It looked like it was parashooting, and it was pritty funny.
Yeah im still unsure what i was looking at. Yes i know it is a Cell, but meh. Colorful aint it?
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: Mefustae on February 13, 2007, 05:04:14 pm
****ing awesome. :yes:
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: fsi.scsi on February 13, 2007, 05:11:33 pm
<nerd_sigh>

It's really sad that I could identify the DNA polymerase, transcription, translation, tubulin generation, the endoplasmic reticulum, and the Golgi apparatus.

</nerd_sigh>
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: Ghost on February 13, 2007, 06:35:50 pm
Ahhh... I still have this bookmarked from the last time I saw it. So very awesome. Thanks for reminding me about it.

The music goes really well with it, although I'm not so fond of the drum beat.
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: MP-Ryan on February 13, 2007, 06:52:08 pm
<nerd_sigh>

It's really sad that I could identify the DNA polymerase, transcription, translation, tubulin generation, the endoplasmic reticulum, and the Golgi apparatus.

</nerd_sigh>

Did you happen to notice what kingdom that cell belongs to though? :P

You missed exocytosis, enzymatic hydrolysis, and what looked to me an awful lot like RNA splicing... :D
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: achtung on February 13, 2007, 11:44:56 pm
What was the uhhh, walking thing?  Also, where was it going, and where had it come from?
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: Taristin on February 14, 2007, 12:41:44 am
Clearly, it just is, and therefore God made it.
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: redsniper on February 14, 2007, 12:46:55 am
No no, we're trying to start a debate in the Darwin Day thread, not this one. ;)
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: MP-Ryan on February 14, 2007, 01:05:46 am
What was the uhhh, walking thing?  Also, where was it going, and where had it come from?

That was a motor protein moving a vesicle along a microtubule.
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: Mefustae on February 14, 2007, 01:57:46 am
What was the uhhh, walking thing?  Also, where was it going, and where had it come from?
That was a motor protein moving a vesicle along a microtubule.
It looks so damn mechanical. Really puts into perspective how we're just machines, albeit squishy machines.
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: Agent_Koopa on February 14, 2007, 11:58:54 am
What was the uhhh, walking thing?  Also, where was it going, and where had it come from?
That was a motor protein moving a vesicle along a microtubule.
It looks so damn mechanical. Really puts into perspective how we're just machines, albeit squishy machines.

QFT. I saw the Golgi apparatus too, hard to miss in all its undulating glory. I don't give a hoot if that's not what it really looks like, it's still awesome. What sort of cell was it? It was crawling through the bloodstream and slipped through the wall, but I don't know nearly enough about biology to get much else.

EDIT: Hold on, the loops attaching to holes in the...cytoplasm? Extruding... proteins? Then that must be... RNA! Yay, I got it!
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: MP-Ryan on February 14, 2007, 03:48:21 pm
That video actually depicts a couple types of cells.  There's a couple frames that identify a cell wall, which things with a bloodstream generally don't have.  All the structures were eukaryotes, so it seems that had both animal, and plant (or I suppose fungal) cells.
Title: Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Post by: aldo_14 on February 14, 2007, 04:10:08 pm
What was the uhhh, walking thing?  Also, where was it going, and where had it come from?
That was a motor protein moving a vesicle along a microtubule.
It looks so damn mechanical. Really puts into perspective how we're just machines, albeit squishy machines.

Brilliant manufacturing process, though :D