I stepped over people huddled on the sidewalk, dirty, splicing the fiber optic cable yesterday. I wonder how long before there are little robots that do the splicing without humans?
With how massively parallel the human body is, this process is copying DNA at an average rate of around 1 million miles per hour if you put all the DNA into a single string. (Consider that each human cell contains about 2 metres worth of DNA)
One name you'll find associated with many of these animations is Drew Berry.
If I had these when I was in high school in the 80s I truly think I would have gone into molecular biology. They are obviously have flaws in terms of a true representation of the process, but it makes the machine much more apparent and that's always been the thing that kept it at bay for me.
More of this style of animation can be found in the WEHImovies channel on YouTube
Hey, working at the DNALC was my first job when I was in high school. I made a port of their iOS 3D brain app for Android, based on pre-rendered images (which was the style at the time - 2009-ish). It looks like it has since been taken down, which makes sense - I targeted my G1 at the time for acceptable performance, and Android broke things as it moved on. I also helped out on some web apps at the time. Great experience.
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 30.2 ms ] threadSome favorites:
https://dnalc.cshl.edu/resources/3d/13-transcription-advance...
https://dnalc.cshl.edu/resources/3d/16-translation-advanced....
https://dnalc.cshl.edu/resources/3d/08-how-dna-is-packaged-a...
https://dnalc.cshl.edu/resources/3d/central-dogma.html
I stepped over people huddled on the sidewalk, dirty, splicing the fiber optic cable yesterday. I wonder how long before there are little robots that do the splicing without humans?
If I had these when I was in high school in the 80s I truly think I would have gone into molecular biology. They are obviously have flaws in terms of a true representation of the process, but it makes the machine much more apparent and that's always been the thing that kept it at bay for me.
More of this style of animation can be found in the WEHImovies channel on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@WEHImovies/videos
https://dnalc.cshl.edu/resources/products/3d-brain-app.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20230307055457/https://play.goog...