HIV Life Cycle – animated and narrated [video]

BitwiseFool · 2024-05-17T19:20:01

Is there a word for feeling fascination and discomfort at the same time? These little molecular machines are so sinister.

agumonkey · 2024-05-18T10:52:34

I had the same question. "Morbid wonder" .. I don't know what's apt, but it's truly a strange feeling. Also looking at all the wiggly proteins all somehow working together making us "us" .. while watching it is strange too.

redblacktree · 2024-05-17T19:27:57

I mean, the tense and sinister-sounding violin music helps with that feeling as well.

BitwiseFool · 2024-05-17T21:10:44

I was so engrossed in the animation that I didn't notice the music.

eleveriven · 2024-05-20T18:52:39

Yet the music made me feel so uncomfortable..

intsunny · 2024-05-18T08:34:11

I completely believe in evolution ........ but sometimes I find myself wondering how did evolution allow for something so intentionally diabolical to come around at the MOLECULAR level.

eleveriven · 2024-05-20T18:54:51

Yeah, it can produce highly sophisticated and intricate systems that can be scary

lupyro · 2024-05-17T21:31:45

Is there a collection of videos like this anywhere online? Or what would be a good search term?

I feel like I see a video like this once a year. There's got to be hundreds of them showing different molecular or biological interactions

ooboe · 2024-05-18T02:45:25

Several universities and organizations have labs dedicated to producing these kind of videos, but 12 years ago the BBC made a good documentary aimed at a general audience on how adenoviruses attack a human and how the body defends against it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nln7d

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8kj9c6

lisper · 2024-05-17T23:48:49

Well, for starters this author of this video has a channel:

https://vimeo.com/jiwasa

eleveriven · 2024-05-20T18:56:56

And the channel is amazing. Really interesting to watch.

jcims · 2024-05-18T23:51:40

You have to look up Drew Berry, a lot of his work is here: https://youtube.com/@wehimovies?si=aQeGjTfRxbhgITk8

qrian · 2024-05-18T08:08:49

I found a playlist of how to make these kind of animation, taught by the author.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et-3Ho9RTR8&list=PLQFc-Dxlf4...

3abiton · 2024-05-18T23:26:44

3blue1brown made also great tools for math visualizations, his work is so impactful in the educational YouTube domain.

rysertio · 2024-05-17T21:20:26

Did I miss something or this infographic missed on how the viral receptors are placed on the envelope.

jcims · 2024-05-18T23:54:10

They aren’t viral receptors, it’s that HIV evolved to bind to a natural receptor that was already there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD4

squigz · 2024-05-18T06:20:44

I was wondering this too

Daub · 2024-05-18T10:10:41

The music (by Joshua Roman) for this video is truly wonderful.

eleveriven · 2024-05-20T18:57:54

Wonderful and just in a right place..

vlovich123 · 2024-05-21T17:53:01

Reminds me of scavenger’s reign

eleveriven · 2024-05-20T18:50:45

It was like a horror movie to watch

marcod · 2024-05-17T20:45:03

... that music though ...