For you bio junkies... this is a really neat animation of some cell actions that some folks at harvard did

http://aimediaserver.com/studiodaily/videoplayer/?src=harvard/harvard.swf&width=640&height=520

I should say I find it partially misleading because it do not really show you what it is like. The things they show are real events, but a cell is SOOO densely packed with stuff. This would admitedly make it difficult to really represent:P enjoy

I have no clue about anything that was happening (I know mitochondria was in there somewhere, but that's only because that's the only cell part I can name :whistle:), but that was still really cool.
Subtitles might be nice for those of us who are life-science-challenged.

I'm forwarding it to our school's science teachers. Thanks for posting! :tu:

Cool- thanks! My lecturers have had some pretty cool videos in teh past, on cell division and replication, a simulation of tRNA and stuff like that, and most recently we watched one of natural killer cells. Cells are pretty cool. I'm such a nerd, I even have a favourite organelle, the gogli apparatus. :doh:

I should say I find it partially misleading because it do not really show you what it is like. The things they show are real events, but a cell is SOOO densely packed with stuff. This would admitedly make it difficult to really represent:P enjoy

I agree, plus, they made it look more organized than it really would look. For example the ribosome was cranking along with a peptide chain spewing out, which you could see, but you couldn't see the indivdual amino acids being marshalled with tRNA, which should have been as visible.

It's the old story that if you make a picture of biology, you have to only show a little corner of what is going on. When you see a picture of someone's face, you don't also see what is going on in their liver. But what is going on in their liver is as important as their face. The biological dependencies just can't be contained in one time or space scale, or in one two dimensional picture. So although you can't blame someone for trying to make a picture tell the story, life is just too big a story to fit in the frame.

That was kewl, except for the part where Steve Irwin got killed by the stingray at the end.