Cells are fast and crowded places. Numbers help us make sense of them.

Here are five of my favorite "bionumbers."

1. ATP synthase spins 134 times/second. That is much faster than the propeller on most piston airplanes, and about half the r.p.m. of a Boeing 737 jet engine. pic.twitter.com/dXbbGfVX1O

— Niko McCarty 🧫 (@NikoMcCarty) February 21, 2024