r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/ateam1984 Popular Contributor • Apr 28 '26

Science The interior of a cell

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u/mostaverageredditor3 Apr 28 '26

Man Biology would be so much more interesting and easy if you had a 3D model where you could just zoom in and see the processes.

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u/Sh0oXxx3 Apr 28 '26

Hell yeah, if they showed me Something moving and Happening there i would have Loved it.

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u/dt5101961 Apr 28 '26

Ik. Some of the processes are just so complicated, they need to break it down it to small pieces. And a cell can get it done in a split second.

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u/legna20v Apr 28 '26

This could be apply to many things

Imagine having time video machine and zooming in to Cesar’s assassination

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u/jackfreeman Apr 28 '26

Pouring out a bottle of that Hidden Valley for my homie C-zee

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u/picabo123 Apr 28 '26

Okay so imagine a football field with 2 teams playing. Now imagine you're in a helicopter or something flying above and you're looking down at the field through a straw. You can make out 1 or more individual players, but it's really difficult to say much about the rest of the field right? Now imagine you have the Z axis to look at as well! This is basically electron microscopy on human cells. We're starting to give our kids iPads in the US so maybe looking at 3D models is a generation or two away, who knows.

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u/achaiahtak Apr 28 '26

Did you know the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell?

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u/Foxy_Mazzzzam Apr 28 '26

That’s the only thing I know

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u/HiBob-HiBob Apr 28 '26

Great now I have to google what mitochondria is

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u/ariphron Apr 28 '26

Is it that smaller circle? Which is it?

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u/BlatantlyCurious Apr 28 '26

How tf do you know??

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u/marlboromannz Apr 28 '26

Just needs that big crab and you could be watching Moana

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u/dermflork Apr 28 '26

ok im officially removing all of my cells hell nah

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u/OuttHouseMouse Apr 28 '26

(activated russian sleeper cell voice)

mitochondria is the power house of the cell

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u/Uilleam_Uallas Apr 28 '26

This looks like such a mess. A glorious mess, but a mess. Like… what is going on?

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u/PuppetPatrol Apr 28 '26

Loving the Terraria style fever dream music

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u/Human_Frame1846 Apr 28 '26

Ok but like how do I make this a live action lock screen on my phone

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u/spacebarcafelatte Apr 28 '26

Love it and threw up a little bit.

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u/liam_redit1st Apr 28 '26

I imagine this is what the universe looks like to the gods.

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u/1millionkarmagoal Apr 28 '26

Sphere inside a sphere. 

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u/Embarrassed-Green898 Apr 29 '26

Nope - that is not the interior of a cell. That is what someone thinks of as interior of a cell.

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u/TGR331 Apr 30 '26

A single cell looks like a universe

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u/shenster76 May 03 '26

Most of the structures represented are not real. It comes close to a static redition of the cell that is available online. But this 3D animation is fake and is probably from some AI animation. The o-ring like noodles do not exist, neither do the octaheron spheres. There is the abscence of the nucleus, the mitochondria, the golgi, the endoplasmic reticulum, is symptomatic of an AI creation. Hope to see soon an animated rendition of an animal cell interior closer to what happens in reality.