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Photographs that reveal an alien planet? No - the breathtaking animated simulations of the world within the HUMAN BODY
注: 这些图片美得眩目.里面的两个视频也值得一看.让你对病毒和细胞的概念有更直观的了解和留下深刻的印象.感谢电脑技术的帮助,使一切深奥枯燥的医学变得直观有趣.谢谢阅读!
中文译文: 丁香园:英国《每日邮报》6月4日刊登了一组酷似科幻大片中外星景观的 ...
英国《每日邮报》6月4日刊登了一组酷似科幻大片中外星景观的3D图片，令人大开眼界。这一图集其实是对人体内部构造极其真实的展示，旨在以新颖而具创意的方式帮助学生和科学家了解错综复杂的科学和生物进程。
据报道，美国康涅狄格州哈特福特市XVIVO工作室的动画师将人体内耳和骨髓的运动图像及胃肠道里的免疫系统放大了十倍。尽管采用了真实的数据，但设备制出的微观图像不是彩色的。因此，插图专家增加了形状和色调。该工作室将制成的合集提供给包括哈佛大学、辉瑞制药公司、美国国防部等在内的机构，并利用电子显微图、医疗插图和照片的复印件再现分子状态下的人体快照图。
对此，XVIVO工作室一名合伙人迈克尔·阿斯特拉罕称，“美学上鼓舞人心的艺术才能真正地打动人。这一意义深刻、令人振奋的旅程不仅有助于获取知识，也让枯燥且无新意的教科书重获新生。”
An underwater world?: This is an image of kinesin (yellow, centre), a motor protein that is capable of moving across a cell. Kinesins are able to 'walk' along microtubules, filament-like protein structures within cells that are involved in a variety of cellular processes, ranging from cell division to transportation of certain chemicals within cells
Resembling an alien biodome: A magnified image of a virus 'blebbing' inside human body. In cell biology, a 'bleb' is an irregular bulge in the plasma membrane of a cell. This often occurs when a cell dies but blebbing also has important functions in other cellular processes, including cell movement and cell division
Image of a marrow cavity where Hematopoietic stem cells are found inside human body. These cells are called 'multipotent stem cells', and are responsible for the production of all blood cells. Through a process known as 'hematopoiesis' these cells mature into white blood cells (which protect us from infection), red blood cells (which carry oxygen to the cells in our bodies), and platelets (which help curb bleeding after injury)
A creature from Mars?: This image is of a microscopic bateriophage, a type of virus that infects and replicates within bacteria
Extra-terrestrial canyons: A computer generated image of Sterocilia, the sensing organelles of hair cells found in the inner ear. They respond to motion for various functions, including hearing and balance inside human body. The hair cells turn the fluid pressure and other stimuli into electrical signals that travel to the brain where they are interpreted as sound
This image shows the microscopic process of how how ATP - a form of energy - is produced within mitochondria inside cells
Here intestinal microvilli from the small intenstine are pictured. Microvilli are responsible for absorbing nutrients into the bloodstream, for transport to the liver and other cells. In order to increase the amount of nutrients taken into the bloodstream, each villus itself has dozens of microvilli, to increase greatly the surface area
Image of Transforming Growth Factor Beta (TGF-beta), a polypeptide found in the human body and milk.
Golgi apparatus are minute organelles found inside most complex cells. They help package proteins inside the cell before they are sent to a part of the body to perform a whatever their job is
Pericytes (green) are pictured on a capillary (a small blood vessel). Pericytes regulate capillary blood flow as well as the clear vessel of cellular debris. In the brain they help sustain the blood-brain barrier
谢谢阅读。周末愉快!
