These 3D animations could help you finally understand molecular science
Art and science have in some ways always overlapped, with early scientists using illustrations to depict what they saw under the microscope. Janet Iwasa of the University of Utah is trying...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: And now to another in our Brief But Spectacular series. Tonight, we hear from Janet Iwasa, an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah, who is trying to increase the public's understanding of science at a molecular level using computer animation. JANET IWASA, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Utah: I was in a lab that studied the act inside a skeleton. So, this is looking at the way cells crawl. And we were right next door to a lab that studied how proteins move along microtubules, so this is considered kind of the highway of the cell. I never really got it, until I saw this 3-D animation that showed all of that detail. And so it made me think, why aren't we all doing this? We should all be animat...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: And now to another in our Brief But Spectacular series. Tonight, we hear from Janet Iwasa, an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah, who is trying to increase the public's understanding of science at a molecular level using computer animation. JANET IWASA, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Utah: I was in a lab that studied the act inside a skeleton. So, this is looking at the way cells crawl. And we were right next door to a lab that studied how proteins move along microtubules, so this is considered kind of the highway of the cell. I never really got it, until I saw this 3-D animation that showed all of that detail. And so it made me think, why aren't we all doing this? We should all be animat...
