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DNA animation (2002-2014) by Drew Berry and Etsuko Uno wehi.tv #ScienceArt

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How the body worksCells and moleculesGenetics and genomics

Drew Berry and Etsuko Uno present highly detailed molecular animations showing the real-time processes of DNA replication and gene transcription.

wehi.tv DNA animations 2002-2014 Edit created for V&A exhibition "The Future Starts Here" (2018) No: narration Yes: sound + text

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What people say. Recommended as mind-bogglingly detailed and accurate animations that make the mechanical, random nature of molecular biology easy to visualize.

pp19ddin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Covid-19 Open Research Dataset”

…d go in case of Covid-19 and other illnesses is analyzing and simulating how the heck we work to begin with. Take a few minutes to watch these videos of supercomputer simulations that show -- fragments -- of the fundamentals of how we exist. Multi Scale Modeling of Chromatin and Nucleosomes - link DNA animation showing realtime DNA replication - link to this video Somewhere in these mind-boggling processes is where the disruption called Covid-19 puts a stick in our wheels. Compared to the complexity of the simulations, abstract ideas contained in these files are so macroscopic by comparison. It's both humbling and awe-inspiring.…
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Balgairin Hacker News • Recommends

On “What's a virus, anyway? The bare-bones basics”

Some other good ones: link to this video link The GP is right in that our intuitions aren't cutting it down at the bottom. All these animations tend to edit out the water molecules so that the audience can understand better. The proteins aren't colored blobs at all. At these scales you'd clearly see individual atoms instead of blobs. But watching a bunch of really detailed atomic ball-stick models would be confusing. And not only are the H2Os battering everything like TIE fighters in the Hoth asteroid field 0, there are ions in there too (Na, K, Cl, etc) that really effect the cell. The membranes are also edited, as many cells are porcupined with receptors like an over crowded wave pool 1. In add…
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jcimsin Hacker News • Recommends

On “How the Coronavirus Hacks the Immune System”

…n the first video to spin at ~21,000 rpm and crank out ATP. I read that your body creates (and then consumes) about its own weight in ATP every day. This channel has a ton of great videos: link Here's one on kinetichore and mitosis (which also shows kinesin and dynein which are comically odd) - link There's a collection of their DNA ones here: link to this video Here's another view of the ATP synthesis process that shows the chaos a bit more: link When I think of these systematically I just wonder what the intermediate steps were. The proton pump uses energy to create the potential gradient that ATP synthase runs on. You can't have a proton gradient without the proton pump, and without the proton…
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anm89in Hacker News • Recommends

On “I should have loved biology”

The thing that drove this home for me were the biovisions animations which got me to go back and basically learn high school biology. Seeing the mechanical nature of gene transciption and chemical signaling blew my mind. link to this video link On the other hand, I don't buy his thing about wishing his high school teacher had presented it differently. No on else can make you interested in this stuff. The best they can do is provide resources like the ones above.
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dnauticsin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]”

I like the wehi videos because they take effort to make the molecular motions appear to be random, a result of stuff blundering about: link to this video
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ignoramousin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Close-Up of the First Mechanical Gear Ever Found in Nature”

Reminds me of this pretty common but all the more spectacular: a close-up of super complex production line (gene transcription) driven by DNA strands: link to this video / link to this video
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bmitcin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf]”

>> I think our brains are machines for predicting what happens next. > Technologist thinks that humans are machines (breaking news) While I also dismiss or at least be careful of the inherent biases of technocratic viewpoints, humans and life in general are very much made of many types of machines. Take a look at these videos: link link to this video I.e., life is insane and bewildering.
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On “Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell”

What a beautiful depiction. Reminds me of high fidelity 3D animation videos I used to watch about DNA replication, cell signalling etc. One of the most fascinating parts to me was DNA transcription. The engineering is quite precise. Found the video I was referring to: link to this video
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jwgarberin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Introduction to Genomics for Engineers”

I'm working on a project in malaria genetics this summer, and I was shocked to find out that the entire analysis toolkit is entirely based on math and statistics (and some non-trivial stuff too, e.g. hidden Markov models to predict CNV). Genotype likelihoods throw an extra wrench into the process, since even basic stuff like predicting allele frequencies requires a maximum likelihood estimator instead of simple counting. This whole area was quite eye-opening, and I'm still amazed that reading billions of base-pairs in DNA sequencing reliably works. Also gotta shout out to these incredible molecular animations by WEHI: link to this video
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acqqin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Learn Genetics”

…ize of human genome (present in each human cell) is around 3 billion (3e9) base pairs (encoding information units of DNA link ). But not all the information is in the DNA alone. The biochemical reactions happen in parallel even when a single cell is observed. The reconstruction of gene transcription, also played in the speed it actually happens: link to this video…
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khaledhin Hacker News • Mentions

On “I should have loved biology”

When I watch animations of how the cell works at a molecular level 0, I can't help but wonder how can this level of sheer complexity in dna transcription, protein production, and many other supporting functions in a single cell works in perfect harmony. It's mind boggling. I admit that I'm biased, but I don't think this could have evolved through random processes. I'm a believer in Intelligent Design. link link to this video link
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