There Is a Spinning Motor Inside Your Cells

ATP synthase, a machine in your mitochondria, has a rotor that has been clocked at more than a hundred turns a second in lab tests. 🔋

Your body holds only a little ATP at a time, so by some estimates you remake roughly your own body weight of it every day.

3D models are simplified illustrations and may not be exact. ATP synthase built from Protein Data Bank 8H9S (Lai et al. 2023); ATP from PubChem 5957. 3D person: "Realistic Human Male Body" by vtr3d (RenderHub, Extended Use). Sources: Ueno et al. 2005, PNAS; Törnroth-Horsefield & Neutze 2008, PNAS.