We don’t usually think of cells as particularly dramatic. But, as you can see in this video, the life of a white blood cell is fraught with hidden strangeness, beauty, and, yes, drama.
This video, which was nominated by commenter Kaeleira in response to a callfor the most useful scientific visualizations, comes from Harvard University’s Biovisions program and was created with the help of the biomedical animators at XVIVO.
https://gizmodo.com/what-visualization-best-illustrated-a-tricky-scientific-1689375345
“The Inner Life Of The Cell” shrinks our view down to the size of a white blood cell as it moves through the circulatory system. It’s an incredible and rarely seen view of a world that, in both terms of shapes and motions, is more evocative of the strangeness of space or the deep ocean than its relatively mundane surface would suggest.
