Noise is key to evolution; entropy is key to metabolism. We have to stop pretending that biology fights against these things rather than relying on them!
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Noise is key to evolution; entropy is key to metabolism. We have to stop pretending that biology fights against these things rather than relying on them!
A Beautiful 1897 Illustrated Book Shows How Flowers Become Art Nouveau Designs
I've seen these animations here and there on the net, but I just found their source: this amazing YouTube channel by @drewberry.bsky.social , which is a goldmine. From malaria lifecycle to signal transduction - full of super cool stuff! youtu.be/Xe-83tBcxhs?...
This weekend we projected cells and filaments on the roof of the @museeorsay.bsky.social in Paris, then we contracted it with a pinch of myosin.
And it was fabulous!
Grateful to have been part of this art/science project & thx to @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social & the CytoMorphoLab
Historical scientific illustration from 1912 showing various detailed sketches of squid and their anatomical features, including full body views from different angles, close-ups of tentacles with suction cups, and detailed depictions of heads and eyes. The squids are numbered and arranged neatly on a beige background, highlighting differences in form, structure, and texture. The image serves as a comprehensive study of cephalopod morphology collected during the Plankton Expedition, emphasizing scientific observation of squid anatomy.
🦑 Die Cephalopoden der Plankton-Expedition
Kiel: Lipsius & Tischer, 1912.
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Illustration from the Norwegian North Sea Expedition (1876-1878) published by Christiania, Grøndahl & søns bogtrykkeri (1880-1901), depicting detailed scientific drawings of Alcyonida coral species. The image shows numerous numbered sketches illustrating two species: Vöringia polaris (figures 1-40) and Vöringia pygmæa (figures 41-90). The corals are drawn in various forms and magnifications, highlighting their branching structures, textures, and polyps. The detailed black and white line art captures naturalistic shapes and intricate surface patterns typical of soft corals, intended for taxonomic study. The plate is labeled with expedition and author information at the top and species names at the bottom.
🪷 Den Norske Nordhavs-expedition, 1876-1878
Christiania, Grøndahl & søns bogtrykkeri, 1880-1901.
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The wonders of Chemistry by @philipcball.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=a3Md... #spectacularchem
Cheers Glendon, great to reconnect since Twitter
Paired with the show, Bob Goldstein created the world's longest microtubule, ascending the Genome Science Building's spiral stairs, to honor Emeritus Professor Ted Salmon
Thanks Phillip, I've been procrastinating creating a making of video about the Homologous Recombination animation production. You've given me a shove to get it done next week...
Here is a 'making of' video I created for 'Synthesis of ATP' animation youtu.be/qbyzEiBvbXw?...
Fantastic work and visual rhythm!
Reminds me of Michel Gondry's music video for Chemical Bros youtu.be/0S43IwBF0uM?...
3rd Edition is my favourite as well! More microscopy than later editions
A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star. Many different wavelengths of light are combined and represented by separate and various colours. A dark line across the centre is the disc, made of opaque dust: the star is hidden in here and creates a strong glow in the centre. A band going straight up is a jet, while other outflows form flares above and below the disc, and a tail coming off to one side.
🌟 Merry Christmas from a newborn star. Earlier this year the NASA/ESA/CSA #Webb Space Telescope took this stunning image of HH30, an edge-on protoplanetary disc. 🧪🔭
🔗 esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_investigates_a_dusty_and_dynamic_disc
Final version is out! Our large-scale cryo-ET dataset 🔬 of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 🦠 is now published in @cp-molcell.bsky.social
Huge collaborative effort! So glad to see the community already using it to develop new resources & tools.
Check it out here: shorturl.at/z4i4c
#CryoEM #CryoET
yes but what does AI reveal? what do the graphics mean?
Punchier colours, emulating nothing
When art meets science! 🤩
Check out Drew's stunning animation of the cellular machinery behind homologous recombination — featuring our favorite DNA repair complex MRN, and other DNA repair heroes! 🧬🔧 @drewberry.bsky.social
Loving @drewberry.bsky.social's beautiful animation of DNA break repair by HR - featuring the MRN complex architecture and function inspired by the research from @hopfnerlab.bsky.social!
Dive into the science behind it🧬
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
Our Science paper is out!
Huge congratulations to @huabin-zhou.bsky.social, Mike Rosen, and the brilliant @janhuemar.bsky.social @juliamaristany.bsky.social and @kieran-russell.bsky.social from our group
News: bit.ly/4avnkAr and bit.ly/3XBGVHS
Great perspective by @vram142.bsky.social +K Zhang
Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.
@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
Some cells are just in it for the drama!
The bottom 5 microns of cells videoed through a microscope by @EmmaKoory. The middle cell rounds up (for fun?) and subsequently rounds up to divide. We missed so much of the action by just sampling the bottom. @CellBiology
Proteins are dynamic structures, but structural biology often shows them as static snapshots. Inspired by long-exposure photography and generative art, I built ProteinCHAOS, an artistic tool inspired by molecular dynamics to capture protein flexibility over time, much like long-exposure images.
![GOD - My pal [Australia, teen garagepunk (?)] (1987)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wv2gr2o7ax7r3ns5yjcyckgm/bafkreicnexbxn6argsvzywi2njyhs4redzmsqa7jmzgo6gdu7zs5s5zyim)
GOD - My pal [Australia, teen garagepunk (?)] (1987)
https://redd.it/69u0jk
https://youtu.be/IQdA3M1tag4
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
Yes! Incredible to see it for real!
Animation of sperm whale vs giant squid I made for a museum exhibition 19 years ago, very popular with kids and the public youtu.be/8GeUy4_aH2Y?...
Animation I made 19 years ago of sperm whale hunting giant squid – INCREDIBLE to see the real thing! youtu.be/8GeUy4_aH2Y?...
Animation I made 19 years ago of sperm whale hunting giant squid – INCREDIBLE to see the real thing! youtu.be/8GeUy4_aH2Y?...
