Apoptosis *WATERMARK* (2006) by Drew Berry wehi.tv, sound design Franc Tétaz

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Apoptosis is a 2006 scientific animation by Drew Berry of the WEHI institute, with sound design by Franc Tetaz. It shows the molecular machinery of programmed cell death in a cell.

HN people recommend it as a gripping and more honest picture of how messy and random molecular biology is than polished cell animations.

“If you want a really fantastic video that captures just how messy and random it is I recommend the wehi videos”
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@atemerev2024 · in “I should have loved biology (2020)”
This is the video that produced the same effect on me. Apoptosis (2006): ▶ this video We are all made of nanobots.
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@lolive2022 · in “Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell”
Youtube proposed me that one, which was really nice too: ▶ this video
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@emteycz2020 · in “Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time”
I like this one: link This one is about 'garbage collection' of cells: ▶ this video
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@dnautics2020 · in “Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?”
you might like this render better: ▶ this video here's the artistic director for the inner life of the cell (the worse one) going on and on about how "beautiful" the science of biology is: link
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@dnautics2020 · in “Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?”
this segment is not the worst, but the full version of inner life of the cell is terrible. Because they cheated, by reversing highly symmetrical processes, for example: link The artistic director has a ted talk where he talks about how beautiful biological processes are, and it's like no, man, you made it look that way. If you want a really fantastic video that captures just how messy and random it is I recommend the wehi videos, like the one on apoptosis, where the proteins look way more derpy than the secret life of the cell: ▶ this video There's a couple of places where they have a hexameric protein where things magically snap into place, but I give them a pass because the kinetics on that are atrociously slow. Let's just say for the sake of a short video the cameraman happened to be at the right place at the right time.
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