Subject: Power in Biology
Speaker: Professor John E. Walker, MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit and Nobel Prize winner talks about ATP - nature's 'rotary engine'.

Most biological energy comes from the sun and is channelled into ATP, the energy currency of biology. Some of the most important ones will be discussed and compared with macroscopic machines in everyday life.

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