Saturday round-up

The Inner Life Of A Cell (animation by John Liebler/XVIVO)
The full version is here, and includes commentary explaining what the scenes are. More information here, which includes a higher resolution version of the short. This is awesome, do not miss it. Via Street Anatomy, which is also worth a visit.

More beautiful scientific artwork can be found at bioemphemera and Morbid Anatomy. 3D animation of a normal childbirth here. Click that at your own risk.

Remarkable stem cell research showing that mature skin cells can be coaxed into becoming cells with embryonic stem cell capacities (blurb in the Times, and direct links to the results from the Kyoto group and the MIT group). An explanation from Rudolph Jaenisch, who leads the MIT group: