A friendly walkthrough for new users — how to run your first experiment, what every tool does, real-world ways to use the studio, and answers to common questions.
Getting started
No setup required. Follow these steps and you will have a recorded, analyzed experiment in minutes.
Choose a neuron, epithelial or plant cell from the top tabs. Open the Layers panel to toggle organelle systems on or off so you can focus on exactly what you want to study.
Use the Simulate panel to dial in pH, temperature, organelle motility and genetic switches. The cell responds live, so every change is instantly visible.
Press Play (or the spacebar) to start the real-time physics engine. Record a run from the timeline so you can replay, scrub and analyze it later.
Open Analyze for live charts, save the run in Experiments, ask the AI to explain it, then export a PDF report or share a read-only link with your lab.
Tools reference
Each tool lives in a tab inside the studio. Here is what you can do with each one.
Show or hide each organelle system — membrane, cytoskeleton, nucleus, mitochondria and more. Great for isolating one structure at a time.
Control the cellular environment: pH, temperature, organelle motility and gene toggles. Watch Brownian motion speed up or slow down as you adjust.
Schedule timed events — heat shock, cold stress, acid wash, pH oscillation. Start from a ready-made protocol template or build your own timeline.
Measure distances, areas and organelle velocities at nanometer precision by clicking in the 3D scene, then export every reading as CSV or JSON.
Turn on inspect mode (press I) and click any organelle to reveal its size, live speed, key roles and a did-you-know fact — biology on demand.
Real-time and historical charts: activity over time, per-organelle behavior, speed distribution histograms and summary statistics.
Save recordings to your personal library, annotate key moments, generate a polished PDF report or ask the built-in AI to explain the results.
Put two saved experiments side by side to see how changing one condition shifted organelle speed, particle counts and the overall environment.
Automate a multi-step experiment across a range of temperature, pH or motility and chart exactly how cell dynamics respond to each value.
Save the full studio state — cell type, parameters, layers and quality — as a named scenario you can reload in one click or export to share.
Use cases
From the classroom to the research bench — here are proven workflows to get you started.
Bring cell biology to life for students. Toggle layers to explain structure, then run a stimulus to show how a cell reacts to its environment in real time.
Design controlled experiments, capture the data, and quantify how organelle dynamics change under different conditions — all reproducible.
Turn findings into shareable artifacts. Annotate the moments that matter and hand your audience a link or a clean report they can open anywhere.
New to cells? Explore at your own pace and let the AI translate the science into plain language whenever you get curious about a result.
Controls
Move faster with the keyboard, and control the 3D view with your mouse.
Tip: inside the studio, take the guided tour any time from the graduation-cap button, or press ? for shortcuts.
FAQ
No — you can launch the studio and explore, run and record experiments right away. Creating a free account lets you save experiments to a personal library, share links and keep your work across sessions.
Every structure is rendered to a true 1 nm scale, from the plasma membrane down to individual ribosomes. Measurements you take in the studio are reported in real nanometer units.
It is a live simulation. A physics engine drives Brownian organelle motion, and it reacts to the pH, temperature and motility values you set — so changing a condition genuinely changes the dynamics.
Open the Measure panel, choose distance, area or velocity, then click points in the 3D scene. Readings appear in the list and can be exported as CSV or JSON.
Save a run in the Experiments panel and press Explain. The built-in assistant reads your parameters and statistics and describes, in plain language, what happened and why it matters.
Yes. Generate a read-only public share link from a saved experiment, or export a PDF report. Anyone with the link can view the summary without signing in.
Open the studio and run your first experiment now — everything you just read is one click away.