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It blows my mind to see how life (and death) work at the molecular level--it's almost like some kind of manmade machine, but far more subtle and complex.

shpongled 6y ago
As a biochemist, that's one of the things that has kept me interested in the work - it's truly mind boggling what is going on at the molecular level every second of our lives.
- jcims 6y ago
  I love reading articles around biology, micro/molecular biology in particular, and looking for references to agency in the text. 'selects', 'filters', 'checks', 'seeks', etc when the reality is that the whole thing is just a massive chemical reaction.
ssener2001 6y ago
Yes.One must know all programming of molecules and all laws current in the universe. perfect hierarchy from atoms to the cells, from cells to plants, animals from animals to earth, from earth to stars
dnautics 6y ago
Just remember that it's not really orchestrated. All of the molecules involve are kind of randomly blundering about and it's one-in-a-million collisions that are responsible for getting shit done (on membranes it's more like one in a thousand and on ropelike structures like dna or actin it's one in a hundred).
shadowofneptune 6y ago
These might interest you then: 3d visualizations of cellular processes in real time. I was shown them in my intro to biology class, which filled me with the same interest. Transcriptase: https://youtu.be/5MfSYnItYvg https://youtu.be/5MfSYnItYvg DNA polymerase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bee6PWUgPo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bee6PWUgPo8 The Ribosome: https://youtu.be/TfYf_rPWUdY https://youtu.be/TfYf_rPWUdY
- jcims 6y ago
  It's been decades since I was in high school but I really hope these videos, or something similarly realistic and mind-bending, is in the modern biology curriculum. Learning about Darwin, Mendel, Watson and Crick and the experiments they did to develop an understanding of biology was informative, but it wasn't compelling to me. These and the work of Drew Berry and WEHI are just amazing: https://www.youtube.com/user/WEHImovies/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/WEHImovies/videos
- dnautics 6y ago
  I like the wehi videos because they take effort to make the molecular motions appear to be random, a result of stuff blundering about: https://youtu.be/7Hk9jct2ozY https://youtu.be/7Hk9jct2ozY

shpongled 6y ago

As a biochemist, that's one of the things that has kept me interested in the work - it's truly mind boggling what is going on at the molecular level every second of our lives.

jcims 6y ago
I love reading articles around biology, micro/molecular biology in particular, and looking for references to agency in the text. 'selects', 'filters', 'checks', 'seeks', etc when the reality is that the whole thing is just a massive chemical reaction.

ssener2001 6y ago

Yes.One must know all programming of molecules and all laws current in the universe. perfect hierarchy from atoms to the cells, from cells to plants, animals from animals to earth, from earth to stars

dnautics 6y ago

Just remember that it's not really orchestrated. All of the molecules involve are kind of randomly blundering about and it's one-in-a-million collisions that are responsible for getting shit done (on membranes it's more like one in a thousand and on ropelike structures like dna or actin it's one in a hundred).

shadowofneptune 6y ago

These might interest you then: 3d visualizations of cellular processes in real time. I was shown them in my intro to biology class, which filled me with the same interest. Transcriptase: https://youtu.be/5MfSYnItYvg https://youtu.be/5MfSYnItYvg DNA polymerase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bee6PWUgPo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bee6PWUgPo8 The Ribosome: https://youtu.be/TfYf_rPWUdY https://youtu.be/TfYf_rPWUdY

jcims 6y ago
It's been decades since I was in high school but I really hope these videos, or something similarly realistic and mind-bending, is in the modern biology curriculum. Learning about Darwin, Mendel, Watson and Crick and the experiments they did to develop an understanding of biology was informative, but it wasn't compelling to me. These and the work of Drew Berry and WEHI are just amazing: https://www.youtube.com/user/WEHImovies/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/WEHImovies/videos
dnautics 6y ago
I like the wehi videos because they take effort to make the molecular motions appear to be random, a result of stuff blundering about: https://youtu.be/7Hk9jct2ozY https://youtu.be/7Hk9jct2ozY