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[Human Mint]

I really enjoy watching this channel.

Here he talks about motors made out of proteins. Yup, that's what bacterias have on their skin, micro-motors. 

What's fascinating is the method to discover those artifacts inside the cell. It is quite messy, brute-forced and slow process. Just imagine all the other structures that can be formed inside a cell that we don't know of. 

Stuff that a engineer would imagine already created by cells. Just complex machinery analogous to some technology we manufacture.

https://youtu.be/VPSm9gJkPxU?si=AjODRdx9qISFnHUL

If you don't know biology, everything inside a cell is made out of proteins. Because it can take any form, any function. It is lego but on steroids. And they are made out of aminoacids, no more and no less. And if I am not mistaken, if specific aminoacides goes togheter they will form a specific shape. Well that is the way all this engineering happens, so intriguing.

And so the scientist go trying to figure out what aminoacids form the proteins of the cell-motor, so technically you could create nano motors made out of proteins.

P.S: the man of that channel is a christian. I always assumed he was an atheist. It doesn't say anything about religion but cool fact.

[Rishabh R]

6 hours ago, Human Mint said:

everything inside a cell is made out of proteins.

No. Nucleic acids like DNA / RNA inside cell nucleus are made up of nucleotides not proteins.

[Human Mint]

@Rishabh R ok profesor, let me rephrase it: everything a cell produces are proteins.