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Animation of how HIV infects a single T-cell https://vimeo.com/260291607 https://vimeo.com/260291607
by jcims 2y ago
Animation of how HIV infects a single T-cell
https://vimeo.com/260291607 https://vimeo.com/260291607
- SixDouble5321 2y agoThis is equal parts amazing and terrifying.
- obloid 2y agoVery interesting, thanks for posting.
- knodi 2y agoWow!
- jcims 2y agoThe music is amazing.
- taf2 2y agoThat is really impressive animation, now I'd love to see this animation updated to include how the Vaccine works
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- gen220 2y agoCan you post this as a new submission? I want to read knowledgeable peoples' responses to it! :) Viruses are incredible. This video does a great job of illustrating how HIV in particular seems to hijack so many essential systems. I now feel like I have a deeper appreciation for why "cures" for viruses are like a holy grail technology – how could you even prevent something like this without collateral damage to some perfectly healthy + necessary process? They're so tangential to how our cells need to work that they're almost parallel.
- jb1991 2y agoHere you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40393107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40393107
- liendolucas 2y agoFor me the most incredible part of the video is the transcription process. Looks like the head of a Turing machine going through the "tape". Really amazing that something like this occurs in the body at a nanometric scale.
- agumonkey 2y agoI was about to say a lisp macro but turing tape works fine too ;)
- op00to 2y agoThis video invokes fear in me. Like, those alien machines (viruses) are doing their weirdo stuff countless times a second in my body. Horrifying.
- Terr_ 2y agoIf it helps, consider that "your body" is the-same-or-more dangerously impressive, with layers of hideously effective defenses to displace or starve or murder anything that gets close, a swarming hive of unfathomable nanotechnology winnowed over millions of years of adversity between the many inheritors of an ancient grey-goo apocalypse. Just from one eldritch hive-mind to another.
- op00to 2y agoI'm not afraid of the viruses per se, I trust in my immune system. It's more the extreme intricacy of the whole damn meatbag. Kinda like looking up at the stars in an ultra-dark environment and seeing more stars than you've ever seen before. I get a little dizzy. Don't get me started on math.
- _Microft 2y agoMaybe you are talking about "awe"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awe
- op00to 2y agoYup!
- postalrat 2y agoThat's why I consider biology a type of alien technology that we've been trying to reverse engineer but are still a ways away.
- jiggawatts 2y agoIf math can make you feel awe, you've got to watch the Numberphile series on very big numbers. They're constants used in proofs that are specific, well-defined integers known to be finite, but so huge that the physical universe does not have enough particles (or even Plank-scale microstates) in it to represent the number of digits these numbers have! Absolutely mind-bending stuff. Listed in increasing order: "Graham's Number" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTeJ64KD5cg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTeJ64KD5cg "How Big is Graham's Number? (feat Ron Graham)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuigptwlVHo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuigptwlVHo "The Enormous TREE(3)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6DWAwwViU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6DWAwwViU "TREE(3) (extra footage)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IihcNa9YAPk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IihcNa9YAPk "The Daddy of Big Numbers (Rayo's Number)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3l0fPHZja8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3l0fPHZja8
- ugh123 2y agoThere should be yearly awards for good science animations and learning tools like this
- surfingdino 2y agoThere is https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/small-world-in-motion https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/small-world-in-mot...
- tejohnso 2y agoThe level of detail in the knowledge of the process is astounding. Having never studied anything like this, at every stage I kept thinking: how do we know all of this?
- andylynch 2y agoEasy, thousands of smart, motivated people, billions of dollars invested and decades of work!
- hansoolo 2y agoWatching the video I did indeed feel like "this is insane!" all the way through...
- Angostura 2y agoIf you liked that - this one on the cell’s energy systems blew me away when I first saw it https://youtu.be/LQmTKxI4Wn4?si=7KEKwFjfLrwyCLvW https://youtu.be/LQmTKxI4Wn4?si=7KEKwFjfLrwyCLvW
- jahnu 2y agoThis is amazing. Where do all the free protons come from?
- fennecbutt 2y agoPeople being born and growing up to decide that "this is what I'm gonna do" Also wealthy individuals or companies funding research purely for public good, often with little to no prospect of returns.
- Certhas 2y agoThe vast majority of what we know would be due to public funding. Not private donors.
- fennecbutt 2y ago
- jimbokun 2y agoFeels like a heist movie. Breaking into the cell and hijacking it's machinery to make more of itself.
- noman-land 2y agoReally incredible animation.
- qrian 2y agoI've heard about membrane protein enables interaction with outside molecules that are random walking near the cell membrane, but seeing it as an animation really hit me that that's how things work.
- Angostura 2y agoVery good, but I could do without the ominous music
- bamboozled 2y agoIt's wild to think what goes into making a life happen. It's so alien, and so complex that it's hard to even realize where "the person" starts compared to the rest of the world. That video is just mind bending.