The Unseen I Videos from the Microscope Imaging Station I Exploratorium

Explore an unfamiliar universe in these videos created at the Microscope Imaging Station. This and other explorations from Living Systems on exhibit through the end of March 2010 in the Ambient Biology installation, located in the Webcast Studio.
www.exploratorium.edu/imaging_...
Original score by Wayne Grim theeobscurantist.blogspot.com/
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• Zebrafish embryo: Cell division during the first 2.5 hours of fish embryo development. (The eggshell has been removed.)
• Cells that resemble neurons: Neuron-like cells, grown from mouse embryonic stem cells.
• Fruit fly pupae, just before hatching. Elapsed time about 5 days.
• Frog eggs: Eggs of the African Clawed Frog during development, filmed over many days.
• Blood cell lysis: Red blood cells from sheep lyse (break open) and fade from view. Elapsed time about 2.5 minutes.
• Crawling Amoeba: A microscopic amoeba crawls across a slide. Elapsed time about 5 minutes.
• Mouse embryonic stem cells and HeLa cells: Mouse embryonic stem cells and HeLa cells (cancer cells) move, grow, and divide in culture.
• Crawling Planaria: Tiny flatworms called planaria, move away from light using cilia (tiny hair-like structures) and mucus.
• Sea slug neuron: The tip of a nerve cell (called a growth cone) from a sea slug moves dynamically in response to various stimuli. (Movie generously provided by the Smith lab at Stanford University.)
• Sea urchin embryos dividing: A field of sea urchin eggs that were fertilized at the same time divide in near-synchrony. Elapsed time 4 hours.
• Volvox globator: The green algae Volvox globator exists as a spherical colony of individual cells. Each cell has two whiplike appendages called flagella that propel the entire colony through water. Elapsed time about 1 minute.

[@exploratorium]

@CidVilas Thanks for your interest! The square feature is probably a mineral crystal or other piece of particulate matter floating around on top of the cells (which are kept in a bath of liquid nutrient media).

[@happyorangeanimation]

That's incredible! Really like the embryo ones particularly

[@Palom313]

I am watching this and listening to Massive Attack - Teardrop. The effect is amazing :D

[@NativeNet_TM]

Fantastic!

[@MrShaun42088]

Stunning-- Riveting --- Beyond Comprehension

[@UsmanKhan-el1kz]

neural cell moving is literally everything !

[@MJ-om5go]

this is so cool

[@MandalorianSquid]

That is so cool. I need to take a microbiology course.

[@descapa1]

music is intense ! i got scared for a second !

[@MauricioCastro1979]

What is that square shaped crystal over the mouse embryonic stem cells? It looks like its growing...

[@MarcieJimenez]

cool!!!

[@UsmanKhan-el1kz]

yes - good question

[@ElthrosXL]

i find the ambient music to be scary...

[@bertazoid]

@CidVilas was about to ask the same thing, almost looks like a microchip

[@vexguine]

Neurons looks like tiny little aliens making and ploting little things.... WHAT IF THEY ARE? ARE WE BEING CONTROLED BY ALIENS? THINS MESSAGE IS BEING TYPED BY ALIENS? WHAT IF.. AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH *MIND BLOWS" :O

[@MrKitty-pm7qi]

we are made of these living, so then what are we, the living, making up?

[@asmira_aladinsabanovic1075]

Ioooooo

[@karimokarimo]

Planaria is looking at you.

[@aulerius]

so this happens in our brain? 0:33

[@goodorusty]

Awesome video but I found the repeating quite annoying. Just saying.