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Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] by shadowofneptune on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @05:13PM (#26640614)
These might interest you then: 3d visualizations of cellular processes in real time. I was shown them in my intro to biology class, which filled me with the same interest.

Transcriptase: https://youtu.be/5MfSYnItYvg DNA polymerase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bee6PWUgPo8 The Ribosome: https://youtu.be/TfYf_rPWUdY

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Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] by jcims on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:16AM (#26647596)
It's been decades since I was in high school but I really hope these videos, or something similarly realistic and mind-bending, is in the modern biology curriculum. Learning about Darwin, Mendel, Watson and Crick and the experiments they did to develop an understanding of biology was informative, but it wasn't compelling to me. These and the work of Drew Berry and WEHI are just amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/user/WEHImovies/videos

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Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] by dnautics on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:12PM (#26653250)
I like the wehi videos because they take effort to make the molecular motions appear to be random, a result of stuff blundering about: https://youtu.be/7Hk9jct2ozY
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