This animation was made in collaboration with Helene Halkjær Jensen from Aalborg University (MTO Group, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience) and descibes how mutations in the protein Calmodulin can cause arrhythmias (unstable heart rhythm) in patients.

Next in my series of spectacular brains was the Sperm Whale (or the nicer name KASKELOT, as its name is in danish and swedish). This intelligent predator has the largest brain of all species on earth. Not even the blue whale, which is the largest species on earth, can beat it (this is due to […]

I have started a series of animations named “Spectacular brains of the vertebrates”! This will show vertebrate brains that are spectacular in different ways. For instance in shape, size, enlarged regions, density, function…. The first animal in this series was a hammerhead shark, which has a very strangely shaped brain due to its very odd […]