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Life Inside a Cell

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the 30-percent-perhaps-a-bit-ambitious dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Harvard University has decided to use animations as a tool to enhance the performance of its students in biology. And it selected XVIVO's animation studio to take Harvard University students on a 3D journey. Among other realizations, the company delivered an eight minute animation titled 'The Inner Life of the Cell,' which was presented at Siggraph 2006 in a condensed form. This extraordinary animation explores 'the mechanisms that allow a white blood cell to sense its surroundings and respond to an external stimulus.' Harvard University expects a performance improvement of its biology students of almost 30% by using such visualization tools."

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  1. Life In A Cell... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A down-on-his-luck American guy having a deep philosophical discussion with two Mexican cockroaches in a jail cell south of the border. If I'm not mistaken, I think Hemingway wrote that.

  2. Re:any more room at the top? by ConsumerOfMany · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are always enough business majors that could not get into History of Music that have to take Biology as an elective instead. They would probably do 50% better with a power point on the subject.....

  3. Animations? by bigdavex · · Score: 2, Funny

    Harvard University has decided to use animations as a tool to enhance the performance of its students in biology.

    Right, because dead students don't perform well. Sounds like a kick-ass research program, by the way.

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  4. Re:30%? by iminplaya · · Score: 2, Funny

    Navigation through a virtual cell with a computer? emphasis mine

    Last one to the patent office is a rotten egg!

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    What?
  5. Re:cheaper solution... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    not quite ... but on the other hand, "boobies got cells!"

  6. Re:That is amazing, I want to see it in Highschool by davidc · · Score: 3, Funny

    I first read that as "playing with a proctoscope"...

  7. What a let-down by Bertie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine my disappointment on seeing "Roland Piquepaille" and "Life inside a cell", and getting this instead of the prison diaries I so hoped for...