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On the topic of 'scientifically accurate animations of biological processes'. You may know of these videos, but I thought these might be worth sharing for others interested in this topic:

Here is a TEDTalk by Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology. (uploaded in 2012) https://youtu.be/WFCvkkDSfIU

Here is also a more recent video by Veritasium on YT that also talks about these animations. (uploaded in 2017) https://youtu.be/X_tYrnv_o6A

⬐ copperx

I did not. That's fantastic. Thank you.

Drew Berry creates similar animations and refers to them (in this talk) as "accurate representations", but doesn't go into much detail. Interesting history in the beginning as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCvkkDSfIU

Slightly off-topic, but this semi-animation of DNA replication machine that is working right now in your body (in amounts of trillions of devices) blew my mind few months ago.

from TED: https://youtu.be/WFCvkkDSfIU?t=3m39s

If you liked this video, also check out this one:

Inner Life of the Cell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzcTgrxMzZk

And here's a nice TED talk by Drew Berry:

Animations of unseeable biology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCvkkDSfIU

These kind of visualizations are of course an idealized view on how it works. As others have already mentioned, the processes are hugely chaotic and much more probabilistic than deterministic. On this scale everything is just one huge wobbling soup of things crashing into each other, which makes it even more fascinating that it works as well as it does.

⬐ posterboy

maybe that's why we need a lot of sleep to grow or recover, then it's not all that wobbly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCvkkDSfIU&t=8m5s

^My favorite way I've seen it described, and also a really cool video even without the subtext. (but ya this is one rabbit hole that I've yet to travel down. guess i took the blue pill, but more pills just seemed unnecessary at the time)