Animations of unseeable biology | Drew Berry | TED 

Reminds me of the the concept of "there being no real fundamental distinction between the mechanical and the organic"

magicstix0r I wonder how they can "walk" on long legs but no muscles…

how about the energy that powers those walkers

I think it has something to do with electrostatic attractions, like what happens with every molecule in every chemical reaction.

+A.DUBITANTE The same way the proteins in your muscles make your muscles move. When you look deep enough into how muscles work, you'll eventually find the part that makes the muscle actually move - and it's pretty much as "simple and small" as these "walkers". It might even be that those machines have a common "ancestor", so to speak :) So far, it seems that it all boils down to electromagnetism (though there may still be some surprises left). The same thing that pulls the carbon to the oxygen in a molecule of carbon dioxide can be used to build those amazing molecular machines.

Glad you like my animations! All of them are available for free at wehi.tv or our RU-vid Channel ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7Hk9jct2ozY.html

@@ajbiv I'm a Biologist by training. I loved the Microbiology world but I could never wrap my head around it due to my inability to envision what I was being taught. This is an excellent idea and very helpful. Can you do chemistry next?

@@ajbiv It's the most incredibly amazing thing I have ever seen. I have 10,000 questions.

@@ajbiv great, amazing work man. as much as i look it this, im more convinced that somebody made us.

So accurate. @Drew Berry please...

I can guess why he got shafted. These machines demonstrate design.

@@Idazmi7 Alien design.

@vin 950 _"yep, the wonderful design of billions of years of evolution."_ Spoken like a true child. The part where your entire belief system falls apart is the part where the cell received the instructions necessary to operate a complex, self-replicating factory that - from itself - became _trillions_ of differentiated and specialized variations all prepared for serving the whole being. Oh, and don't say "DNA". I know that exists. You explain to me how DNA - a four digit codebase with pre-encoded instructions - came from random happenstance. You may as well believe a Ford factory just randomly sprang into existence on it's own.

@@Idazmi7 I believe CREATOR and also love science. My faith not against science.

@@Cleeon Exactly.

Totaly agreed!

It is it truly is

agree

Truly.

For real!!

@itsasin1969 Because it´s true.

10 minutes is a travesty. This man and this topic are worth at least a whole TV series, one that would surely humble us the way that Cosmos did.

@@garychap8384 Take a look at the iBiology videos. They cover this in more detail and have interesting supporting material. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9RUHJhskW00.html and ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xtqUu8DGQko.html are two good examples. Enjoy!

he should make a YT channel

@@diabl2master Some YT Bio channels (please add more if you have fave's) iBiology The Royal Institution Schmidt Ocean Journey to the Microcosmos Omar Ali

The scale of it all is just unreal.

You said it perfectly!! Biotechnology!

you and me both pal!!

+Brad E lolz I like the enthusiasm, long may that last

i support you

I agree. It's astounding and awe inspiring. It's us. How wonderful!

no exaggeration

Jesus is the only way to be saved and enter eternal life, you should join His Catholic Church!

@@christsavesreadromans1096 just make sure to avoid the Roman Catholic Church.

@@brianredmond4919 No way.

TnEEn 5 years late but me too...me too. Hope your better than you thought you would be when you first wrote this comment at the time btw, truly. ✌🏼🙏🏼✌🏼

interesting right ?

@@thurlmusic definitely interesting

there are many other videos with this technique

ytcio he has a channel on RU-vid

do you feel that this must be intelligently inspired? this is obviously a machine.

I don’t know how they feel, but I do feel like some machines could be the products of evolution. After all, from what I have read, very ancient cells of very ancient organisms did not necessarily have all of the biological technology in them that cells of currently living organisms have. So they must have been necessarily more limited in function and thus there were probably fewer types of cells originally because what was inside them was simpler. So we’re looking at millions of years of evolution inside cells as well as of the organisms which those cells make up (if greater than a single celled organism). But don’t take my words for it. Check out the science.

@@andrewbarrett1537 its amazing is what it is. thank you for the insight.

Neil degrasse tyson said that the more we learn about a subject, the more we realize how much we have to learn.

some said: consider yourself a circle and the area of that circle is your knowledge. As the circle goes larger = u know more = area increases, it's circumference also increases = u see more that u dont know.

@@bacarlson991Neil deGrasse borrowed that from an ancient philosopher.

The same can be said for the scientists that study this microbiology.

Right you are Mister!!! As the one who is getting paid, it means that someone important recognizes your expertise, So, do what you do!!!.

Crecensio Morales Thank you,my brother J. As a teacher, it has always been great to get a vote of confidence. Also, We had our issues with Brooklyn College, but I was ALWAYS proud of our Biology Dep't,and the knowledge, and expertise, of my professors. That pride also extended to the "first" Department of Puerto Rican Studies in the CUNY system. The knowledge I learned from Prof. Antonio Nadal, and the other faculty, expanded my understanding of our culture!

Nice to hear of such a dedicated teacher! I remember studying biology with a great teacher, which I think makes all the difference between a class you can't wait to leave and a class you can't wait to start. Science needs a bigger standing in American schools, which needs to be pushed for politically, rather difficult with the current president however...

I sometimes doubt the point of presenting such results to people who don't really care - I mean the case when students simply cannot relate to their own experience. On the other hand, the tremendous work about finding and communicating these results is remarkable and impressive on its own and I think the more people are involved, the better it is for the advancement of science as a community. That requires lots of curiosity, patience and engagement, let alone dedicated attention from both learners and teachers, as plain information "got to know" in a classroom environment can be overwhelming and irrelevant without a practical context. I studied electrical engineering, unfortunately the standard curriculum at my university offered very little actual engineering work, but lots of theory and a rather descriptive and attitudinal approach, which I found inadequate and inconvenient later in my career as I've seen things from a more involute perspective but with less experience with the crafts. The advantage was that I find it easy to teach and learn about topics, but I feel very ineffective at routine tasks. I am unaware of how tangible it is at biology courses. I am really fascinated by biological studies, my physics- and math-centered knowledge really seems trivial compared to the complexities of biology. :)

Adrián Gugyin if you've ever had questions to do with life, biology is the root of that topic. It combines chemistry and physics to make life, which you would expect to be impossibly complex, but which can actually be divided rather well, especially if you include the full historical state of science, the journey the knowledge takes from the first concepts to the most concrete evidence is pretty well recorded with biology and with modern insights, we can look at historical things and understand them in a new light. Did you know there is a theory as to how cities form (or used to form) environments perfect for cross-species infection? Because the original use of cities was trade, many many animals and people would be in close proximity with regular contact between multiple species. It's not often a disease evolved for cows or chickens becomes human compatible, but it only has to happen once and then spread to other humans, and it's an established disease. I can say I've still got my biology textbooks from my classes 2 years ago, and they're still fun to flick through, there are so many great explanations for how and why biology works. It's got so much to offer, and it's incredible the things that some people just seem to be completely unaware of (like nutrient limitations of plant growth. Climate change deniers often push that CO2 is good for plant growth, as it is a key ingredient in photosynthesis. However, photosynthesis only produces glucose, an energy rich nonosaccharide (simple sugar) and cells are made from many components, including DNA. The molecules of DNA are rich in nitrogen (the A-T C-G bits are called nitrogenous bases) and so replicating cells (therefore making more plant) requires more than just extra sugar! Not to mention plants already use up water in the same reaction in rather large quantities, increasing just sugar production could help drain ground water and lead to drought if unmediated. Sorry, I got carried away there, kinda get a bit caught up when someone shows interest. It's great chatting about the future of biotechnologies though, like genetic engineering and our path in natural selection... So many possibilities... So many discussions!

nicely put. I wonder if color even exists at the molecular scale

@@bluwasabi7635 nah, or not in the same sense that macroscopic objects give off a color via reflection. Individual atoms and most molecules are smaller than the wavelengths of light themselves, but they can absorb and re-emit light via their electrons. The colors in this video are purely for visual representation, and almost all of the size of these macromolecules shown in the animations are not mass itself but are scaled up (space-filling model). There's different ways to model these molecules and each aren't really true to what you'd see in nature, they're just models based on electromagnetic forces.

@@bluwasabi7635 really, colour only exists in your mind. Nothing has a colour, it's all just photons and electrons doing their little quantum dance.

Nana there are no accidents, do you see anywhere in nature or in the cosmos random accidental things coming together to create life? Nope. Everything you see is already what it is, that is what it’s supposed to do. Do you wonder why the universe is ordered and not chaos? How can this be, it doesn’t make sense and it is illogical and defies all scientific understanding unless you look at it through the understanding of it was all designed and created. The order in the universe is beyond comprehension. The complexities of the micro and macro leaves you breathless as it should. If God created all this and he did don’t you think then he want to talk to you and have a relationship with you? Think about the power and wisdom of the God who created all this. God actually says, look to me the one who created all the stars and everything you see. If you want to know him just cry out to Jesus in humility and repentance for hurting him by our sin. He loves you and wants you to be with him for all eternity if you will confess him as your Lord and savior and he said you will become a new creation and come alive for the first time. He want to know you and for you to be known by him. Go for it don’t delay for your eyes will be opened and your destiny will unfold before you. God bless. By the way this is just our earth suit but if you receive Jesus he has a much better one waiting for you and you will need it to go where he lives. You were meant for the stars not for an eternity alone and without him.

We are alive because of these guys in the video! ❤ Literally

yes around 3.5 billion years of bio-environmental trial and error...

@@Invit123 lol 😂🤣✌️ I'll wait 3 billions year I want a coincidence to create a robot this time.

@@AboudUranium um that's essentially what we are chief.... just complex robots made out of organic tissue. also do you have any idea how long 3 billion years is? if you were to mark 3 billion years evenly over the distance of a soccer field, the entire span of human existence (around 100 thousand years) would be marked by the width of a single blade of grass.

@@Invit123 mind blown just wow. I'll just throw away some atoms and I'll wait 3 billions year by chance they'll start thinking and making a damn dna and those molecular machine. Why atheist just think in a coincidence is more logical then intelligence design? If another creature other than human and happen to be smart found a car or a computer would he think this machine was created by chance like you do. Something else even this universe isn't a coincidence why the big bang occurred??? Why we are here then give me a single purpose of life you'll say to reproduce and then what or life will be meaningless just end your life and go to the endless darkness already and everyone should do like that we are not going anywhere we will get sucked into a black hole and die anyway then what the universe will die somehow in the end.

@@AboudUranium there is nothing wrong with you believing in intelligent design or theism. for me, it just brings in more questions than answers... I find that secular/non-creationist views regarding the existence life are just more viable and evident, but i understand if it's difficult for you to wrap your head around.

Its because its the most optimized design for things. Natural selection in a way

Almost like the universe is fractal in ways we can understand but not explain

A miracle of evolution ( sarcasm intended). I marvel at our God when I think of what is beyond the telescope as well as what is beyond the microscope, all so sophistically and beautifully designed at every level. 😃

@@doctortabby yes. It’s clear who created all this, it’s so obvious that it’s not some natural processes of Elovution, where simpler molecules become more and more complex, but that all this complex DNA which looks like spaghetti, is actually created by the Holy creator - the Spaghetti Monster. The DNA itself represents spaghetti. The “balls” that hold the DNA into chromosomes represent meat-balls. All the planets orbiting the sun have the shape of meat-ball. If you look at Milky-way it looks like someone threw sauce (probably spaghetti sauce) into the universe. Isn’t that enough evidence that this is all work of the Spaghetti monster?

@@superkingdestroyer0075 ROFL. :-)

@@superkingdestroyer0075 its not made by fiction character but its a power of evolution.

@@Timesofstem all that we know was made by he of noodley appendages

Nives Kovacevic agreed! I think that is Drew Berry point: in order to teach more new generations, you have to make learning and visualization easier

it works much better than 10000 words in a chapter

This stuff does not seem abstract. You are literally made of this things

If only the 3D models were made with the same level of care as the pictures you see in modern molecular biology textbooks. And these animations have way too much 'noise'... like the thermodynamic wiggling. I can't see any reason to include it, it only acts as a distraction since you can't even see the actual molecular collisions that cause it.

You are welcome, Chrome Toaster.

I don't know about that... Way too many creationists...

@@francescosorce5189 snowflake triggered by alternative viewpoints.

you are welcome dear Crometoaster :D can i get my toast burnt light on the other side ?? :D

@@francescosorce5189 So you would rather have more people who think an explosion and randomness created all of this? Your brain has no doubt already told you that this is the result of an intelligence. If not then you need a refund.

It really is. But then imagining a million years is mind blowing, let alone imagining the first 2.5 billion (2500 million) years of life on this planet which was just single-cellular evolution that tiny increment by tiny increment made these cellular functions.

The pay for a lot of scientific jobs is way too low.

@@nccamsc And it only gets lower with the decline of discovery or innovation. Can't wait for some dude to ignite a market for designer bioweapons. Surely nothing can go wrong!

On that scale electrimagnetic interactions are so strong compared to gravity or you acceleration when you are moving, that there is nothing to worry about!

hahaha. love this comment. Dont worry. Those motor proteins will not fall off. They only walk in one direction too. So in each direction (forward and backward), there are different motor proteins. They are guided by the charge (+ and -) of the 'strand' (which is technically called microtubule). They only walk when they have to carry something (a vesicle/ protein).

1.618033 proof of Allah CC, they go where shold they go, all proteine moves consiciously as if they have brains. proteins are like workers in factory. of course, this control in dark mini space(cell) due to Allah ...

It is a funny thought but actually you should have such concern in other areas. The thing we consume and breathe in pollute this incredible machinery. If you think about antibiotics being able to get everywhere in the body, that speaks to the permeability of the biochemistry. You can imagine what smoking does. Both pot and cigarettes. Eating very heat treated foods can introduce molecules of an unfortunate shape that breaks the machinery. And of course infectious diseases, particularly viruses can do massive damage. A cellphone call on the head will do damage as well.

We should eliminate all public contact surfaces like credit card keyboards and door handles. Office coffee machines and day car disease hub behavior. With a few smart steps we can eliminate all infectious diseases.

I've got down syndrome

You could say that about actual machines, too. This is because machines are built by someone that has given it a purpose.

They have, God made it, and gave it.

@@bethlehemeisenhour8352 no he didn't. there is no god. grow up.

@@tomokokuroki2506 or just, ya know, evolution.

@@JD-jl4yy Hells a hot place, don't think you will like it there.

i know right, it's incredible

I hope I will be still alive, when based on this tech humanity will create entirely new species.

Nope, we haven't. When was the last time you saw an animal with it's DNA created from scratch?

And to think that this is what happens IN OUR BODIES

roald dahl it is great that we are now able to visualise these things in action.

I've enjoyed this one like a hundred times. It gives me goosebumps EVERY time: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FzcTgrxMzZk.html

you've slipped in a bold claim there, that this was all "created" which implies an outside force or intelligence. until we have evidence for such things, it's strictly a topic for philosophy class and drugged-out bonfires. please keep it out of science class.

@@zhou_sei TED lectures are entertainment, sometimes infotainment, sometimes a bit sciencey but they are not easily confused for a science class and monitoring the comments section on RU-vid looking for bold claims isn't perhaps a good use of your time.

@@muttleycrew you imply it's a waste of my time, but guess who's getting their practice spotting logical fallacies... MUAHAHAHAHAHAH

zhou sei logical fallacies aren’t hard to spot, it’s more useful to apply logic than to spot instances of it breaking down

@@zhou_sei Don't be a fool. Micro biologists like Stephen Meyer and Michael Behe have made intelligent design unmistakably scientific topic. What isn't science is BS like abiogenesis.

You can almost see "YASKAWA"

exactly. It is so strange that these things resemble such a mechanical way. It almost looks alien, the DNA splitter, not the little creatures. The DNA splitter is so alien to me, the way it does it is like a computer. How could molecules over time simply just bound together in such a way? Is the universe itself a living being?

@@SpacePonder Evolution solves problems like that.

"How is this possible though? Is it just me or do I see some form of low consciousness with the molecular DNA machines?" The Animations make it seem that way maybe but it is just as conscious as a clockwork.

The core question is: who made this robot?

Fearfully?

Fearfully and wonderful don’t belong in the same descriptive sentence love.

23 fearfully in this instance means ‘in awe of’

You are nice

True that brother

Was?

Kyle Vin now you've seen the genius of God

@@samitsme8910 Nah, it all came out of nothing by a mere chance. :D

@@samitsme8910 Both of these responses are wrong. Even if God does exist in some form and is responsible for life, it is no longer in question that we are evolved, and evolution isn't random. If God is our architect, he was wise enough to understand that a system built from the bottom up is much more precise than one constructed from the top down, and he allowed the particulars to develop on their own after getting the basic machinery of life going. Believing in God doesn't have to mean rejecting the most well-supported scientific ideas. I don't believe God exists, but if you do, why not interpret all this as us seeking to understand a little more about HOW God did it? Surely we need not limit ourselves to what our Bronze Age ancestors thought, right? It's no insult to God if they got some things wrong. I hope our descendants don't limit themselves to our way of thinking, considering that they'll know so much more about themselves and the universe than we do.

​@@SauceMeGud amazing comment. Thank you.

Lol. I was thinking about Terence McKenna while watching this...

@@MysticFiddler1 machine elves eh?

That's fascinating!!! Do you feel like you really had a vague view of the reality?? Why your DNA??

Tim Lazenby....Damn, I wish you had shared your experience with Drew...you could have saved him a lot of research time. 🤣

Tim Lazenby It’s almost like DMT shifts your perspective deeper inside yourself to the point you actually can see all this happening. I totally get you on that one

I agree. Her insight would be most helpful here.

Re:-Some propose that Numbers 5:11-31 refers to God causing an abortion. The 2011 edition of the NIV mistakenly states that the drink will cause miscarriage in Numbers 5:21-22, 27. However, this is not what the passage is talking about. Pregnancy is nowhere mentioned, or even hinted at, in the text. The only thing that even sounds like pregnancy is the guilty wife’s stomach becoming bloated, but even in that instance, it has nothing to do with pregnancy. Further, the passage does not say that drinking the concoction would cause an abortion/miscarriage. While drinking a poisonous mixture of ingredients could very well cause a miscarriage, that is not what this text is speaking of.

yo lets give a quick shoutout to drew barrymore

Awe, we even gave them cute little names!

@@Thumbsupurbum lol

they have a tendency to wear red hats these days

Well, sad this got political

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seconded

spoiled brats

Animation is about movement which has nothing to do with the quality of the image and everything to do with motion and the number of frames. So yes "really"

Seriously, I saw God's hand tweaking "us" in his heavenly laboratory.

@@lambmaster27 What an unbelievably stupid statement. Most classic animation during the golden age of cartoons is 12 frames per second, only a minority of shots were done in 24fps because it cost so much more (often animators had to draw every image themselves, because they couldn't rely on assistants to do it right). Now, anime gets by on even less much of the time. Stop motion is often on 2's or 3's (12fps/8fps respectively). Think about how much more work it takes to make CGI characters for a 4K screen, where the shadow on the edge of a pore is visible. Someone has to make that. I wish quality of the image meant nothing. I wouldn't have to spend my nights tweaking the normal map on a character's face to get the depth of the wrinkles just right. Or spend hours painting 8k texture maps.

No wonder it's spaghetti code!

More like C++ G++ A++ T++

best nerdy response ever :)

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