Ribosome in action

Nanotechnology at work

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• cell
• dna
• molecular
• machine
• nano-device
• nanotechnology
• protein
• ribosome

[steevmac]

Lots of people asked "how does it do this all on its own?".

Well, chemicals do stuff on their own, based on chemical reactions, bonds & charges. Life is based on chemical reactions which follow *relatively* simple laws & patterns.

If you don't understand how it happens, research "valency", "acids & bases", "oxydation & reduction", "lone pairs", "covalent & ionic bonds", "crystalline structures" OR buy an organic chemistry textbook, followed by a biochemistry textbook. The answers are there.

[PilateLite]

This is the best demonstration of ribosomes that I have ever seen. It even managed to amaze me more than I already was by the seemingly magical process of protein transcription. This is truly a glimpse into one of the primordial "engines of creation"

[IMAHMS]

@steevmac I think our actions are decided by our brain through an automated series of interactions of neurons that recieve inputs (including the situation & the mood we are in, & the past experiences), process it through a network of neuron's connections (similar to computer alogrithm), lead to firing of neurons that results in a responce (which could be saying something, give a facial expression, feel afraid..ect). we become consciously aware of our responce, gives us the illusion of free-will

[steevmac]

@IMAHMS Indeed, you are right, it does make you wonder. The next step after wondering though, is to go & study the subject. Our personal incredulity is a very poor judge of what is true & what isn't. There are so many times when our brains, eyes and ears cannot grasp a concept, yet empirical measurements & rationality are the most reliable ways of bearing out the truth. Magic can never be written off, but it is unfalsifiable, superfluous to our understanding & detrimental to our sanity.

[IMAHMS]

@steevmac makes you wonder.. if our so called self-awareness or consiousness.. our purposfull movement, are nothing but a sum of or a more complex form of the same thing type of things here.. chemical, mechanical, purpose-like

[IMAHMS]

mind blowing

[zenithar6666]

nope, there are many instances where a a species would have died out if not for the appraent arrival of aprotien on time, anitfreeze is an example. There is such speculation its not even funny, simply becuase it has sequecne homology doesnt mean it evolved that way!

[RolfRomeo]

@zenithar6666

Ok, then. But I think you're overplaying the need for timely arrival. I doubt anything happens until the right reactants are available.

[zenithar6666]

nope, there is no way that could account for the timely arrival cyclicaly of trnas to ribosomes etc contractile rings at cytokinesis ete and calling it a soup defies and downplays the sheer scope of the organzation within the cell!

[RolfRomeo]

@zenithar6666

I'm in no way a biochemist, but I think brownian motion in the "soup" of molecules inside cells is what causes the right one to be in the right place in a somewhat timely fashion.

[Keftes89]

@zastor99991 Wrong just wrong... if you think the Kur'an matches with science and is perfect, you are brainwashed. Being proud to be muslim is fine, but spreading lies is not... I think you should pick up a book; not the Kur'an, a different one....