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The Inner Life of the Cell Animation (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world
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Still amazing after 18 years ... (this is only part of it)

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[–] Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This was my Teamspeak avatar for years:

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That walking molecule ... amazing discovery, WANT to know MORE!

[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's kinesin, a motor protein that literally walks along microtubules to transport cargo through the cell - it's one of the coolest examples of molecular machines in biology and uses ATP as fuel for each step!