Watch The Inside Of A Cell Move In High Resolution
Ever since the invention of the first microscope in the late 1500s, humans have been trying to see things normally invisible to the naked eye in order to better understand them. As technology has improved, we’ve discovered dozens of ways to glimpse the world on its tiniest scales, including finding new ways to capture the structures and movements of living cells. A video of some of a cell’s tiniest parts, which was achieved using a particularly high resolution microscope with increased aperture, was published in a study this past August in Science. It was touted again today on a blog written by Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health. The video is a nanoscale view of the cytoskeleton, one of the outer parts of a cell that gives it shape. The red structures are actin filaments, fibers made of proteins that cause cells to...