Monday, February 9, 2015

A very cool animation of protein synthesis

Animation is under-appreciated as a communications medium in a lot of science.  Whether that's because the best animations use some artistic license - and aren't 100% accurate - or because creating them is a skill that a lot of science geeks don't have, I leave for another post.

For the moment, here's a really intriguing animation of a protein being synthesized from DNA.  Enjoy:



Video found via labroots.com