Cell Size and Scale
visualisation
One continuous slider that zooms from a coffee bean down past a skin cell, a virus and a haemoglobin molecule to a carbon atom. Does more for intuition about scale in thirty seconds than a page of exponents.
Opens learn.genetics.utah.edu in a new tab. Staffroom doesn’t host it, doesn’t mirror it and takes nothing from it.
how this can help
Someone has drawn the thing that is hard to picture. Good for a concept you can state but cannot see.
what it covers
Filed under Biology. Bodies, cells and the machinery inside them, in layers you can peel back.
who put it here
Built by University of Utah.
On the desk since 7 September 2026. what Staffroom has sent it.
near it on the shelf
- Learn.GeneticsInteractive Essay
- BioDigital Human3D Model
- HHMI BioInteractiveInteractive Essay
- Zygote Body3D Model
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