Cellular Landscapes: Protein Synthesis(media.cellsignal.com)
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Cellular Landscapes: Protein Synthesis
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It's surprising how many people still think biology is somehow simpler than IT. This is very obviously not true. We're still just barely (not) capable of building or emulating the simplest biological systems.
Each time some species goes extinct, you lose all of the information, inventions, concepts pertaining to super-sophisticated nanotech that were encoded in their DNA. The better we understand the value of diverse life forms, the more we will curse the people who let even one species go extinct on their watch.
Each time some species goes extinct, you lose all of the information, inventions, concepts pertaining to super-sophisticated nanotech that were encoded in their DNA. The better we understand the value of diverse life forms, the more we will curse the people who let even one species go extinct on their watch.
> It's surprising how many people still think biology is somehow simpler than IT.
How many people? Is that an opinion you've actually come across in the wild? It would surprise me.
How many people? Is that an opinion you've actually come across in the wild? It would surprise me.
It crops up in "Why don't they just..." type comments.
The apt analogy is "Imagine you're debugging a 3.5 billion year old legacy codebase put together by copying and pasting."
The apt analogy is "Imagine you're debugging a 3.5 billion year old legacy codebase put together by copying and pasting."
As someone who used to work in a lab and was in the “biohacker” scene, yes.
More information from one of the authors: https://gaelmcgill.artstation.com/projects/Pm0JL1
> Created for Cell Signaling Technology, Inc., and inspired by the stunning art of David Goodsell[1], this 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell is modeled using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets for all of its molecular actors. It is an attempt to recapitulate the myriad pathways involved in signal transduction, protein synthesis, endocytosis, vesicular transport, cell-cell adhesion, apoptosis, and other processes. Although dilute in its concentration relative to a real cell, this rendering is also an attempt to visualize the great complexity and beauty of the cell’s molecular choreography.
[1]: About David Goodsell – https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/
> Created for Cell Signaling Technology, Inc., and inspired by the stunning art of David Goodsell[1], this 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell is modeled using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets for all of its molecular actors. It is an attempt to recapitulate the myriad pathways involved in signal transduction, protein synthesis, endocytosis, vesicular transport, cell-cell adhesion, apoptosis, and other processes. Although dilute in its concentration relative to a real cell, this rendering is also an attempt to visualize the great complexity and beauty of the cell’s molecular choreography.
[1]: About David Goodsell – https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/
[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1654050/Nanoscape/
[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1634740/Nanoscape_VR/
[3] https://elifesciences.org/articles/64047