Balancing tradition and technology.
ATP powers muscle cell contraction, protein building, cell replication.. To go down a rabbit hole briefly, these fascinating organelles are the vestiges of ancient bacteria which somehow became intertwined with the larger eucaryote cells of animals and plants.They have their own DNA which is only passed on through the female line.
The way they produce ATP is by becoming self-charging batteries of 180mV which drives all the processes in a cell.. To get back to scale; do we have one of these in each cell?The answer is no, we have a few 100,000 per cell.Over millions of years of evolution although much has changed, they have not changed in size, because the size and structure represent a sweet spot for their function.
You could say that we have learned similarly in the building of batteries; replicating and combining small cells works much better than trying to create large cells.The body itself carries on the advantages of scaling.
An organ contains some hundred billion cells and the body is made up of about 100 organs and limbs..
If we look more broadly into the living world, we can see that size and scale are really important factors in function, efficiency, and survival.These days she’s starting to see “masses of the big players change their behaviour.”.
She’s as excited for them as she is for architects.. Marks recalls that while talking to the Head of VD&C for a large company, she was impressed with the work and incredible technology going into a two-billion-dollar hospital project.At the end of the presentation, she asked, “how much of this can you use for the next project?”.
The answer: “None of it.”.It’s not acceptable, she says, addressing the position of the serial owners who are building hospital after hospital, school after school.
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