Chances are you know someone who has coronary heart disease (CHD). An estimated 16.5 million adults in American have CHD. And it is the leading cause of death in men and women, attributed to 1 of every 7 deaths in the United States. CHD occurs when cholesterol and plaque buildup on the inside of the arteries that supply blood …
How Do Cilia and Flagella Move?
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Michael Astrachan
The XVIVO team is proud of a recent project in collaboration with Dr. Daniela Nicastro , Associate Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Nicastro and her research colleagues had completed some complex and ground-breaking research into how cilia and flagella generate their whip-like motion, and they asked XVIVO to help them visualize the …
Being There: Virtual Reality in Medical Animation
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Michael Astrachan
The team at XVIVO Scientific Animation is hitting the road to showcase their newest capabilities in virtual reality (VR) for interactive medical visualizations. In the latest fully-interactive experience they’ve developed, running on an Oculus Rift, you are a drug delivery agent who is miniaturized and inserted into a cell. Once in the cell, your job …
XVIVO and PBS Present: My Love Affair with the Brain
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Michael Astrachan
On March 9th, your knowledge of the human brain will be challenged and revitalized through years of research and understanding conjured by the brilliant Dr.Marian Diamond. With over two million dedicated YouTube followers and a penchant for toting around a brain in a box, her special is bound to astound viewers. The PBS documentary and …
Rare Diseases Deserves a Voice
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Michael Astrachan
Heart disease affects 1 out of every 4 people in the United States.Breast cancer affects 1 out of every 8 women in the United States.In an average year, 1 out of every 4 Americans comes down with the flu. These are recognizable conditions because they occur in many individuals. You probably know somebody who has had one of these conditions, if …
XVIVO First Look |”Dead” or “Weakened” Viruses
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Michael Astrachan
XVIVO is helping Medical History Pictures, Inc. to develop 3D animation for a biographical documentary about Dr. Maurice Hilleman (1919-2005), one of the most important contributors to modern vaccinology. We will routinely update with behind-the-scenes images while providing some science notes and musings. Vaccines against viruses are said to be made of dead or weakened pathogens, which already hints at the existence …
THE INNER LIFE OF THE CELL: PROTEIN PACKING
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Michael Astrachan
Harvard University and XVIVO come together again to add to the growing series of scientific animations for BioVisions – Harvard’s multimedia lab in the department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Protein Packing strives to more accurately depict the molecular chaos in each and every cell, with proteins jittering around in what may seem like random motion. Proteins occupy roughly …
A FOCUS ON ALK-POSITIVE NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
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Michael Astrachan
In partnership with Wedgewood Communications, XVIVO developed two videos for Takeda Oncology to discuss lung cancer mechanism of disease and treatments. This animation takes an extensive and detailed look at the sub-populations of patients who have non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which affects about 198,000 new patients in the United States each year. The animation …
GLUTAMATE MODULATION
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Michael Astrachan
Glutamate is the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain. Release of glutamate is essential for normal function of neurons, but the levels of this neurotransmitter must be tightly regulated to avoid toxic effects on neurons. XVIVO partnered with Biohaven to animate the glutamate story. The script details normal glutamate signaling, dysfunctional glutamate signaling and …
CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC CONSTIPATION
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Michael Astrachan
These clips come from a project we developed that discuss the mechanisms of disease of Chronic Idiopathic Constipation (CIC) and Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Constipation (IBS-C). This medical animation depicts the micro-anatomy of the bowel from the level of bowel surface microvilli, down to the traffic of ions and proteins across specialized tight junctions that …
Chances are you know someone who has coronary heart disease (CHD). An estimated 16.5 million adults in American have CHD. And it is the leading cause of death in men and women, attributed to 1 of every 7 deaths in the United States. CHD occurs when cholesterol and plaque buildup on the inside of the arteries that supply blood …
