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Some biological structures are so small that scientists can’t see them with even the most powerful microscopes. That’s where molecular animator and TED Fellow Janet Iwasa gets creative. Explore vast, unseen molecular worlds as she shares mesmerizing animations that imagine how they might work.
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EyesOfByes
May 6, 2020 at 6:11 pm
But can it run Crysis?
Cheryl Taylor
May 6, 2020 at 6:17 pm
Very interesting
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May 6, 2020 at 6:17 pm
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Gzpo
May 6, 2020 at 6:41 pm
I’m so glad you did this presentation. I knew that there were those who made these animations of things we cannot see. Now I know that there is some one imagining some one’s conceptualizations abstracted from empirical tests. Its the best we can do until some one invents a way for us to actually see these critters at work. I imagine; therefore, I am.
legendary clasher
May 6, 2020 at 6:45 pm
Dyenin is actually very interesting
The Truth of the Matter
May 6, 2020 at 6:46 pm
Id hit it…
Stephen Catton
May 6, 2020 at 6:50 pm
Very interesting
The Truth of the Matter
May 6, 2020 at 6:53 pm
And people say this all happened because one protein molecule miraculously stabilized against all astronomical odds for the necessary time needed to bump into another molecule that had miraculously stabilized against all astronomical odds…then not destroying each other…nay…binding and folding into a chain that had enough information to spur a divide…or reproduction. All by chance…millions of times. Mmhmm…I have a nice bridge to sell some folks btw. Contact me.
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May 6, 2020 at 7:24 pm
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Psycho Social Creation
May 6, 2020 at 7:25 pm
How does cells constantly change? 🤲🏻
Omy
May 6, 2020 at 7:27 pm
So science is just guess work?
iluan Hernandez
May 6, 2020 at 9:20 pm
Not quite. The guess is only the very first step. From an initial hypothesis you have to design an experiment. That is, you have to think “If my guess is right, what observable things should be true and what should be not true” and “how do I make sure that what I observe is not consequence of something else”. Then you have to do the experiment, that is actually observe your predictions.
Of course, because experiments are hard to design and do properly, you have to make sure your initial guess is backed up with as much previous observations as possible.
In the field of molecular biology, our guesses (hypothesis) sometimes become really hard to explain to our team members, let alone the people outside the field, so we use animations like these to explain things clearly (Well, those who can afford an animator do, the rest of us just use diagrams and stuff).
If you want to observe molecules in 3D with good details you need to do something called crystalography, but you don’t get dynamics, you only get snapshots. Also, it is super expensive, time consuming and the slightest mistake can mean you get no results at all after days of work.
polpiw dam
May 6, 2020 at 7:28 pm
Yes yes ok
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May 6, 2020 at 7:48 pm
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Event Horizon
May 6, 2020 at 7:48 pm
It’s an animation of a hypothesis, but still interesting.Would be really amazing to actually “see” it !
MrFatilo
May 6, 2020 at 8:09 pm
Yea this totally isn’t designed! LOL.
Atheiism… the dumbest religion mankind ever knew.
Luz Roslyn
May 6, 2020 at 8:55 pm
Thats is vey goid info. Very intelligent showing. And sharing the knowledge is awesome. Thanks ang i like it
Славянка Slavianka
May 6, 2020 at 9:08 pm
Странные люди, македонский язык в субтитрах есть, а русского нет.
Sunny Singh
May 6, 2020 at 9:10 pm
this is amazing wow
Nordeen Abdellah
May 6, 2020 at 9:19 pm
What a wonderful molecular world and a smart and beautiful scientist.
Rocstoneau
May 6, 2020 at 9:52 pm
How wonderfully made we are.
Robert Stark
May 6, 2020 at 9:55 pm
Thank you for this wonderful video!
Team Sonic Mania 2020
May 6, 2020 at 11:13 pm
Sure
Sir John Shearer kt.
May 6, 2020 at 11:19 pm
That is amazing!!!
Hanssan Abidal_E2lh
May 6, 2020 at 11:35 pm
The Finktron
May 6, 2020 at 11:37 pm
Animations like yours have allowed me and my students to understand cellular processes better than we ever could before. Thank you.
Huda Murad
May 7, 2020 at 1:46 am
Amazing
KingGordo Productions
May 7, 2020 at 2:12 am
Bare in mind that any man-made machine requires an intelligent designer….yet these microscopic, self-replicating “machines” are so exponentially far beyond anything that the culmination of all human engineering has been able to create. It is a logical fallacy to claim that all of this unfathomable mechanical intricacy could spawn from unintelligence, regardless of how many billions upon billions of years are available. It’s not a matter of statistical outcomes out of chaos, it’s a matter of design.
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May 7, 2020 at 2:22 am
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harsit Gamer
May 7, 2020 at 2:43 am
Bro can we friends
thinh nhan nguyen
May 7, 2020 at 3:42 am
What a good talk !
tigressnsnow
May 7, 2020 at 3:54 am
Next time I need a name it will be ANTIN
Ilham qutus
May 7, 2020 at 5:21 am
Mantab
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May 7, 2020 at 6:04 am
You a sub
onyemaechi Daniel
May 7, 2020 at 6:54 am
Getting this type of information makes me feel so small, like a world of knowledge exists that I may never be able to learn in my lifetime. Wow!
Nadia Hristova
May 7, 2020 at 8:04 am
That’s such a cool job. 🥺
Fco G
May 7, 2020 at 9:31 am
Bjarke Ingels in the crowd! <3
Dan B
May 7, 2020 at 9:58 am
I legitimately believe that if you don’t at least give credence to the notion of design in nature (non religious context) your brain may not be functioning correctly. Because to scoff at the idea, whether you agree with it or not, seems deeply unreasonable, if not a form of insanity
kxmode
May 7, 2020 at 10:35 am
“From ComplicaTED
to EducaTED.” Like that? You can have it. 🙂
MOMSHIE SOLIETA
May 7, 2020 at 11:27 am
Sure… How was the molecules did that. You did great
rizza mae ong
May 7, 2020 at 1:23 pm
“molecular animator”
interesting profession.
Johnny Cheese
May 7, 2020 at 2:00 pm
Each human is a galaxy of self assembled nanobots, orchestrated in vast complexity of harmonious interactions. And we haven’t really begun to discuss the brain yet….
yampada rajasekhar
May 7, 2020 at 3:14 pm
Well information
Dee Ess
May 7, 2020 at 3:38 pm
Jus like humans could possibly be unbelievably small organisms in an unbelievably huge organism, these unbelievably small little guys could be the same, only in Our body
hana
May 7, 2020 at 11:04 pm
سبحان الله العظيم
Gerald Marco
May 8, 2020 at 2:46 am
Animations like these help me and others to understand more about Biology
TRENDY HACKS
May 8, 2020 at 7:19 am
Dream it. Wish it. Do it.
George Bond
May 8, 2020 at 8:09 am
Machines building other machines and that microtubule highway constructing itself and deconstructing itself. You cant tell me that evolved without intelligence.
Bradley Fitzik
May 8, 2020 at 5:52 pm
Wow it’s crazy how perfectly our bodies work on the microscopic level…
Until these proteins stop taking orders and then try to kill us 😉
Eric Hrahsel
May 9, 2020 at 7:24 am
How could these complex structures evolve on its own?..
I am an agnostic, and even if God doesn’t exists or it exists, there are intelligent design everywhere.. i don’t know what is the truth anymore.
gautam kumar
May 11, 2020 at 2:44 am
Have not understood a single thing feels so dumb, even, grammar I wrote here used Grammarly to correct . This is the dumbest phase of my life as my father just thought of me as duffer
shadow fiend
May 12, 2020 at 9:50 pm
All that information carried out in 6 mins. This woman is oustanding.
What a machine gun woman.