Tuesday, November 16, 2010

See Inside a Cell

This visual representation of the inside of a cell is quite incredible. The video from The New York Times describes the work of interdisciplinary scientists combining film and molecular biology in an attempting to depict what it would be like to be a microscopic particle traveling through a cell. Their newest work, Powering The Cell: Mitochondria, shows how cells use the food that we eat to create their own energy currency- ATP.

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