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Our journey begins in the 17th century,
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an era where life's greatest secrets were
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this dim room, a scientist
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named Robert Hook challenges
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the impossible. Using a
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simple microscope of his own making, he
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aimed a [musical] lens at a piece of
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egg tree cork. As the lens rotated
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to its sharpest focus, an
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unexpected sight appeared before him.
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Not a living creature moving, but
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a row of dead empty rooms without any
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signs of life. He saw
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small, empty rooms. [music]
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He then wrote down the eternal name
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Celula. Two centuries passed, the world of science
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woke up [music] and realized that the
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empty hook box held a
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big secret. Matias Clayen discovered that
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each green leaf of a plant is
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composed of billions of living cells.
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[music] Supported by Theodor Swen.
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They give birth to absolute truth.
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All living things are built [musically]
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by cells. Cells are no longer dead empty spaces
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. It is a very active furnace of life [music]
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our micro-explorer, MED01. But
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where do these new cells come from
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? Rudolf Virko provided a
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revolutionary answer. Omnis celula e
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celula. Cells are not simply created
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out of nothing. Every living cell [music]
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guides its destiny by dividing itself,
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passing on the code of life to the
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next generation. A precise fission process
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ensures that the chain of life
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[music] on earth is never broken.
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To this day, light microscopes
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help us observe the dance of
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living cells [music] in their organic colors.
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However, light has physical limits. There are
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secrets that are too small to be
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reached by light waves. So let's
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take a quantum leap. We
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leave the world of light and enter the dimension of
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electrons. No longer a particle of light.
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High-energy electron beams
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nanoscale reality. Welcome to the world of SEM. A
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moving electron microscope [music]
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capable of capturing three-dimensional topographic details
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in real time. Under SEM,
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the surfaces of microscopic enemies like viruses
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and bacteria are perfectly mapped like
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alien land. But to see the contents
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transmission electron microscope slicing
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through the darkness [music]. Behold
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the mitochondria, the powerhouses.
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Through electron beams, we can
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see its intricate internal folds.
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Next to it, the endoplasmic reticulum
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works like a giant manufacturing factory
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assisted by protein-making ribosomes
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. And this is the crux of it all.
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The nucleus, the great [music] library that
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holds the entire blueprint of the destiny of
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living beings. SE maps the
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external surface in three dimensions. [music]
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While T differentiates the internal structure of
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cells on a nanometer scale from
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Robert Hook's empty space to
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modern atomic visualization. Technology has
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broken down the boundaries of our ignorance [music]
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now imagine the future. If
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today we can [music] see
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the ultrastructure of cells with precision,
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would humans be able to engineer cells from
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scratch? Could engineering artificial organelles
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genetic diseases or challenge the
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natural limits of evolution itself?
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The answer lies in the hands of you, the
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explorers of the future. Welcome to the
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New Frontier of Life Sciences.
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Welcome to the world of cells.
