The Molecular Basis of Alzheimer's Disease - Prof. Patrick C. Fraering

This movie describes the development of Alzheimer's disease at a molecular level. It shows the very important role of the amyloid-beta peptides in the generation of deadly plaques in the brain. It is proposed by the research of professor Patrick C. Fraering who is head of the laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Alzheimer's Disease at the Life Science department and Brain Mind Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne - EPFL.

Professor Patrick Fraering's lab website is at:

The graphics and sound engineering is done by the Visualbiotech team with help of its rendering and simulation system called BioInspire.

Visualbiotech engineers:
Pablo de Heras Ciechomski
Robin Mange

website:

Music is composed by Kevin Macleod:

We hope you learned something new!

[GARRYKINGLIVE]

I am a university undergrad and I am researching the molecular basis of this devastating disease and many others similar to it. I am with you in this battle and there is hope because every single second of every single minute of every single day we inch closer to the cure. Love your dad.

[Sicologikal]

This is a great video...bursting with up-to-date knowledge of AD. The graphics were top-class also..well done!

[sleekat]

Thanks so much for this video. If we do not closely identify and describe this disease, or any other affliction for that matter, then we will not be able to know it, and if we do not know it, we will not be able to defeat it. Knowing is half the battle. My father has this happening right now, in the latter stages, and it is devastating. Videos like this give our families who suffer through this hope for the

[pablodeheras]

Hi Kaiyin, sorry for the late reply. We use our own rendering technology developed with automated animation of biology in mind. It is a ray tracing renderer with an attached simulation core. The package is called BioInspire and requires that the animator writes behaviors of cells as small AI scripts, compiles a DLL and then lets the BioInspire engine do the rest, i.e. simulation and ray tracing. Hope that answers your question.

[Joec]

0:29

Minor nitpick; neuronal communication across synapses is chemically based.

Communication within a neuron (ie. from axon hillock to axon terminal) is electrically based.

:)

[bobasaurus]

Amazing use of raytracing. I'm waiting for the day when this can be achieved in realtime for consumer machines.

[sleekat]

@GARRYKINGLIVE Thank you much sir, and I'll do my part to get people to fund the research of this disease in any shape, form, or fashion that we can. And I know there are people out there everyday and every minute working on it, and to me, that is amazing and as well.

[alefpatsy]

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