Mitochondria: the cell's powerhouse
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a beautiful, accessible animation of cellular energy production.
What it is
A short Harvard animation narrated by Professor Rob Lue introducing mitochondria as the cell's powerhouses and how cells turn food and oxygen into energy.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2021 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends navan · 2021-01 · on “Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)”
This reminded me of a beautiful animation of "Mitochondria: the cell's powerhouse" which I recently watched. [this video]
Recommends thanatos519 · 2022-10 · on “How food powers the body's metabolism”
An incredible story! Somewhere in [LINK] or [this video] the narrator casually says "... and this is why we breathe oxygen ..."
Cites candiodari · 2022-05 · on “Enzyme Electric Fields”
You want molecular dynamics. They are simulations, not real images. But otoh (visible) light rays are "about as big" as a very large protein, so you can't image them. And because of computational expense they're slow motion by necessity, which is good because very, very complex enzyme interactions means ~2-3000 interactions per second. Example: [this video]