Life of the Cell - Harvard Multimedia Animation

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Start date Dec 12, 2006
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Dec 12, 2006

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http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/anim_innerlife_hi.html

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Dec 12, 2006

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I only watched a part of it, but that's pretty cool! It should be a good learning tool. I wish I knew how people make such cool videos like that!

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