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Mitochondria: the cell's powerhouse

Harvard Online · 1.1M views · 2017-04-19 · 5:17

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Overview

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.

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Recommended as a beautiful, accessible animation of cellular energy production.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2021–2022

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Biology & biotechnology
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What people said

thanatos519 · 2022-10 · Recommendation

An incredible story! Somewhere in [LINK] or [VIDEO] the narrator casually says "... and this is why we breathe oxygen ..."

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navan · 2021-01 · Recommendation

This reminded me of a beautiful animation of "Mitochondria: the cell's powerhouse" which I recently watched. [VIDEO]

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candiodari · 2022-05 · Reference

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: [VIDEO]

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