Sunday, July 08, 2007

Visualization of the inner workings of a cell

A company called xvivo has presented an innovative way to show the inner workings of a cell, a white blood cell in this case. The video here is more of a tech demo. An 8 minute video with explanation, which hard to understand if you're not a biology student, can be found here. It created quite a buzz a couple of months ago. The Wachowski brothers (Matrix) have even approached the company to see if they can use the technology for special effects in a remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Wired article...

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