Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found a way to turn real-life 3D images of cells into explorable worlds inside Minecraft. Now, instead of just reading about cells in a textbook, you can walk through them, block by block, just like exploring a Minecraft castle.

Using cutting-edge, super powerful microscopes, the team captured extremely detailed images of things like yeast cells, bacteria and even human breast cells. They built these microscopic worlds into Minecraft, so anyone — whether they’re a student, a gamer or just curious — can dive right in and explore the tiny inner workings of life.

They also created different cell models, like healthy cells and cancer cells, so the differences are visible.

These Minecraft worlds are free to download on GitHub, along with coding tools that allow for building or tweaking your own scientific playground

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