Cell-to-Cell Communication reveals processes that are invisible to the naked eye: cells respond to implants, trigger inflammation, break down bone, or help new tissue form. The biomedical animation series combines scientific findings with sophisticated 3D imagery.
What began with a module on osseointegration grew into a seven-part series created over more than a decade. Each topic had separate versions for experts and the interested public. Throughout this development, Triacom provided translation, editing, and terminological coordination in German and English.
With a completed book, the source text and illustrations are normally fixed. In Cell-to-Cell Communication, the texts moved as well: during development, content was translated back and forth between German and English, refined, and adapted to new versions of the animations.
Nor was the source language always the same. Translation became part of the development process and, at the same time, a means of communication among the specialists involved.
Technical accuracy is not enough. Narration must do more than get the facts right. It must be easy to speak, fit the timing of the visuals, and explain precisely what the viewer is seeing at that moment. The public version also had to tell the same story differently than the version for scientists and clinicians.
Module 1
2011, second edition 2012
Module 2
2012, second edition 2013
Module 3
2014
Module 4
2015
Module 5
2016
Module 6
2019
Visual Biology in Oral Medicine
Module 7, 2022
Modules 1–6:
German and English translations: Per N. Döhler
Module 7: German translation: Per N. Döhler
Published in 2022, Cell Atlas—Visual Biology in Oral Medicine is the seventh part of the series. This richly illustrated book brings together many of the previously animated biological processes in a new format. Triacom translated the German edition.
It is accompanied by the augmented reality app AR Osteoclasts, which presents bone resorption by osteoclasts as a three-dimensional process. The film series had evolved into an interplay of animation, book, and interactive application.
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the series at Quintessence Publishing
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Cell Atlas at Quintessence Publishing
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the AR app at Quintessence Publishing
Not all the individual products are still available, and some videos once published online have disappeared as well. On a separate page, we have collected the trailers and longer versions that remain accessible.
View the CCC trailer collection
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