HIV Replication: Five Minute Animated Tutorial

These biological animations provide insights to biomedical students that would otherwise be beyond reach. More realistic mental pictures of biomedical phenomena allow more accurate mental projection of other possibilities.

Hat tip Biosingularity blog.

Lesson One: Stem Cell Characteristics

Snowcrash at Biosingularity presents four videos on stem cell characteristics. This is the first video of the series. Go to Biosingularity or YouTube for the other three.

Computer animated videos are becoming a powerful educational tool for visualising activities that are very small, very fast, or otherwise difficult to see with the human eye.

Cells and Molecules

As fast as these molecular actions may appear, in reality they happen thousands of times faster. Animations scale up and slow down molecular activity so that we can see--and more intuitively feel--them.

3D Clinic Showreel--Visualizing The Body

Biomedical animations are increasing in sophistication. This brief "teaser" illustrates the potential of realistic animations for explaining disease processes and medical treatments to patients in the office.

More detailed animations of this type would be welcome tools for medical, paramedical, and nursing education. The best textbooks, even with vivid drawings and photographs, cannot match the mental and emotional impact of watching pathophysiology in action on both macro and microscopic levels.