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Seeds for healthy cells, candy for cancer: The stop motion tricks behind this TED-Ed lesson

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BmFEoCFDi-w#!

Making this TED-Ed video required (a) a lot of knitting and (b) a ton of boxes of Nerds.

When it came time to animate the lesson “How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones?” from educator George Zaidan, our TED-Ed animators had a crazy idea for how to make cell division come alive -- using seeds and beans to animate what healthy cells look like as they divide in an orderly pattern and brightly colored candies to show how cancer cells divide quickly and wildly.

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This is amazing. I'm always so impressed with the TED talks.

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