Powering the Cell: Mitochondria

Together Harvard University and XVIVO developed this 3D animation journey for Harvard's undergraduate Molecular and Cellular Biology students about the microscopic world of mitochondria. The animation highlights the creation of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) -- mobile molecules which store chemical energy derived from the breakdown of carbon-based food. ATP molecules act as a kind of currency, imparting chemical energy to power all the functional components of cellular activity. This piece is the second in a series of award winning animations XVIVO is creating for Harvard's educational website BioVisions at Harvard. The first program, Inner Life of the Cell, received international acclaim and can be seen both on our website and the BioVisions site.

http://www.xvivo.net
http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/

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[buddhasbaby]

Thanks Mom!!

[anilynh]

I wanna swim in there.

[tropicanatalia]

I agree, this is beautiful and very, very cool... But a slower version with captions would be really useful!

[AmazingArends]

If this is supposed to be a literal representation of what goes on in a a single human cell, it's pretty awesome. Like universes within universes!!! It would be helpful, however, to have some kind of narration so we can know exactly what we are looking at at any particular moment.

[xero993]

Alternatively, 'soundtrack'.

[IDtaksovr]

It looks designed but it's not designed. It looks designed but it's not designed.It looks designed but it's not designed. It looks designed but it's not designed.It looks designed but it's not designed. It looks ...

Sorry. Just doing a punishment exercise for doubting the power of Darwinian mutation and selection in class....

It looks designed but it's not designed. It looks designed but it's not designed......

[echrobok audrea]

Where can you find it?

[yrunkell thi]

So cool. :D

[DoS37]

Instrumental, natural.

[helfrich raven]

I'm learning. :D

[uklinger merlyn]

I miss learning these stuffs.