The Inner Life of the Cell

I came across this stunning piece a few days ago. Best I have ever seen about molecular machines and cellular microbiology. Watch out for the motor protein and Lipid raft




Slower 8 minute version with narration and no music



Shorter 3 min version set to music

From Wikipedia

"The Inner Life of the Cell is an 8.5-minute 3D computer graphics animation illustrating the molecular mechanisms that occur when a white blood cell in the blood vessels of the human body is activated by inflammation. It shows how a white blood cell rolls along the inner surface of the capillary, flattens out, and squeezes through the cells of the capillary wall to the site of inflammation where it contributes to the immune reaction. ...

David Bolinsky, former lead medical illustrator at Yale, lead animator John Liebler, and Mike Astrachan are some of the creators at XVIVO who made the movie. They created the animation for Harvard's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. ... Most of the processes animated were the result of Alain Viel's, Ph.D. work describing the processes to the team. Alain Viel is an associate director of undergraduate research at Harvard University. The movie took 14 months to create for 8.5 minutes of animation. It was first seen by a wide audience at the 2006 SIGGRAPH conference in Boston."

• The Inner Life of the Cell from XVIVO
• Extravasion Simplified cartoon version of the same process.
• David Bolinsky's TED Speech Presenting The Inner Life of the Cell
• http://sparkleberrysprings.com/innerlifeofcell.html
• The Inner Life of the Cell from Studio Daily
• The Inner Life of the Cell on Wordpress
• Wired 2007 interview with David Bolinsky