# Molecular animations.

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molecular-animations/560863
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 16, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molecular-animations/560863 "2010-11-16T15:39:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molecular-animations/560863/1 "2010-11-16T15:39:53Z")

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I just saw this video from the New York Times, and I thought many other dopers would find this very cool.

[The Animators of Life.](http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/11/15/science/1248069334032/the-animators-of-life.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=ab1)

It’s a busy day, but I think I’ll spend a little time hunting up some of these videos on YouTube…

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### Author: ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molecular-animations/560863/2 "2010-11-16T16:17:00Z")

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Cool find. I don’t know much about the subject, it always helps for people like me to visualize things. Looking up both cell movies…

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### Author: ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molecular-animations/560863/3 "2010-11-17T21:14:39Z")

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I’ve used “The Inner Life of a Cell” for years in my Molecular Biology classes. I think it really helps students to place the processes that we are learning about in a 3 dimensional space. It also hammers home the fact that all of these things don’t happen in isolation from each other. Plus, it’s just a stunningly beautiful representation of the cell.

I can’t wait to add the mitochondrial video to my next class.

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### Author: ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/molecular-animations/560863/4 "2010-11-18T01:29:36Z")

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Cool. I saw that yesterday, and was all, “That’s ATP synthase! 🆒”