Animations of unseeable biology | Drew Berry | TED
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Drew Berry juxtaposes a DNA model informed by X-ray crystallography with time-lapse microscopy of a living cell. Each picture explains biology through a different path from measurement to image.
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This is DNA in its classic double helix form. And it's from X-ray crystallography, so it's an accurate model of DNA.This is the way a living cell looks down a light microscope. And it's been filmed under time-lapse, which is why you can see it moving.