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Now on display! < Back XVIVO Scientific Animation Previous Next Title: Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Year: 2013 Software: 3DS Max, After Effects, PyMOL Description: Proteins can be depicted in several ways to best illustrate their structure. Here, we show aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. In the center of the protein, we reveal the ribbon structure that describes the simplified path and organization of the protein. XVIVO Scientific Animation 2023. All rights reserved. Discovery is proud to display XVIVO Scientific Animation. The gallery, generously donated by XVIVO Scientific Animation , features videos and still images from the Connecticut-based animation studio. XVIVO With over 23 years of experience, XVIVO takes innovative scientific accomplishments and transforms them into detailed and captivating medical animations, medical illustrations, and medical interactive experiences. XVIVO is home to a talented team of researchers, medical writers, artists, animators, emerging tech experts, and producers. Their team has over 140 aggregate years of experience translating scientific knowledge, systems, and mechanisms, and cellular and molecular stories into clear and compelling communications. To learn more about XVIVO and scientific animation, please visit them at Medical Animation - 3D Animation Company | XVIVO On Display Now.

LAST CHANCE TO VISIT! Closing on August 30, 2025. < Back How People Make Things Previous Next Every object in our world has a story of how it is made. How People Make Things tells that story by linking familiar childhood objects to a process of manufacturing that combines people, ideas and technology. How People Make Things, inspired by the factory tour segments from the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood television series, offers hands-on activities using real factory tools and machines to create objects with four manufacturing processes - molding, cutting, deforming and assembly. Many common manufactured products help tell the story of how people, ideas and technology transform raw materials into finished products. How People Make Things offers hands-on activities using real factory tools and machines to create objects using four manufacturing processes – molding, cutting, deforming, and assembly. Visitors can use a die cutter to make a box and a horse, cut wax using different sculpting tools, deform a wire by taking a straight wire into a spring shape by winding it around the metal shaft, mold spoons using real melted wax, assemble a trolley and test your skills on the testing track. “This exhibit brings children close to the real stuff, the nuts and bolts of how products are manufactured, which is very easy to feel removed from these days,” says Jane Werner, Executive Director of the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. “Through his factory tours, Fred Rogers took complex issues and made them simple and direct so children could understand them and relate them to their own lives. He made manufacturing fascinating and inspirational, and we continue that tradition with How People Make Things .” The factory tour videos from the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood television series featured in the exhibit depict the making of crayons, carousel horses, balls, stop lights, quarters, shoes, toy cars and toy wagons. How People Make Things was created by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Family Communications, Inc. (FCI), the producer of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and the University of Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out-of-School Environments (UPCLOSE) . The exhibit was made possible with support from the National Science Foundation and The Grable Foundation. About Children’s Museum Pittsburgh Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is a place that provides innovative and inclusive museum experiences that inspire kindness, joy, creativity and curiosity for all learners. Our imaginative, open-ended exhibits and programs give families the opportunity to explore topics like art, making and social-emotional learning in ways that are authentic, meaningful, and most of all, fun!

Pre-K Great for wide age ranges–ask us about customization and discounts for add-on programs! Back to All Labs Sink or Float! Engineering Travel, Onsite NGSS Standards: S.36.7, S.48.11, S.48.1, S.48.2 For all preschool standards with emotional / social learning, physical development and health and creative arts, click this link here. How did people learn how to travel over water? Your students will find out as they test different materials to see what sinks and what floats. Students will build and test their own boats to apply their understandings of why certain materials and shapes float, then see what happens when they add cargo to their creations. Students will refine their designs and figure out how to make improved boats after testing.

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Now on display: Inside You < Back Inside You Previous Next Adapted from the exhibition The Secret World Inside You organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York ( amnh.org ). Inside You explores the rapidly evolving science that is revolutionizing how we view human health. Our bodies are home to many trillions of microbes, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other organisms collectively called the human microbiome. In any human, microbial genes outnumber the genes in human DNA by more than 100 to one. This new perspective leads us to look at our bodies not just as individuals, but as entire ecosystems. Organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York, this new exhibition will introduce visitors to the world of microbes and how they impact our health and well-being. Investigating the human microbiome is a very young science, and researchers are just beginning to understand what constitutes a “normal” microbiome, how it changes over time, and how it affects health and disease. But what is clear is that the effects of the microbiome on its human host are profound and multifaceted—and could play an important role in common health problems like allergies, asthma, obesity, and even anxiety and depression. Visitors will discover where microbes live in, on, and around them: Microbes thrive on your skin, in your mouth, and also in your gastrointestinal tract, home to your body’s densest and most diverse microbial community—about 100 trillion bacteria, more than all the stars in the Milky Way. Engaging graphics detail how microbes aid digestion, influence your immune system, and help fight harmful microbes. You’ll find out how we acquire our microbiome and how it is shaped by the foods we eat and the environment we live in. There will also be a video featuring some of the scientists who are breaking new ground in microbiome research. How do your interactions with microbes—from who you touch and what you wear to the pets you keep—influence your health? In what ways can your microbiome be said to be its own organ? And is it possible that the state of the bacteria in your gut plays a role in your mental health? Inside You dives into these intriguing and other profound questions. Inside You is co-curated by Susan Perkins and Rob DeSalle, curators in the American Museum of Natural History’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology and the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics.

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