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This Isn't What Happiness Looks Like At A Microscopic Level, But The Video Is Still Pretty Cool
There's a video/gif that's been doing the rounds since 2014. It's an adorable "walking" animation of a myosin protein dragging endorphins on a path to the brain.
Basically, it's happiness at the microscopic level. Except, despite what you may have seen, it's not.
It's not that everything about this is wrong though. That IS an animation of a protein particle walking along a microtubule, just not a myosin protein. It's instead a kinesin protein dragging a vesicle. This is any large part of a cell that's too big to move around on its own as needed.
The link has a little more to read, but I took the video from it and put it here...
loved the video!
ReplyDeleteRemarkable and beautiful.
ReplyDeleteVery weird and wonderful.
ReplyDeleteUnglaublich und wundersam, ein weiterer Wunder menschlichen Körpers enthüllt.
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