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💪 How can microscopic cells band together to make your muscles move? let’s explore an atomic-scale model of the sarcomere that your muscles are built out of. We’ll discover the incredible power of Actin and Myosin and gain a whole new level of respect for your biochemistry



💻 Rendered using @BradyJohnston ‘s open-source Molecular Nodes Add-on for Blender: https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/molecularnodes/



📚Primary Works Cited:



The molecular basis for sarcomere organization in vertebrate skeletal muscle
Wang, Zhexin et al.
Cell, Volume 184, Issue 8, 2135 - 2150.e13
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00236-1



Tamborrini, D., Wang, Z., Wagner, T. et al. Structure of the native myosin filament in the relaxed cardiac sarcomere. Nature 623, 863–871 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06690-5



Big shoutout to the Stefan Rausner lab at the Max Planck Institute:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ViX-nsehsg



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