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Recommended as a beautiful, accessible animation of cellular energy production.
A short Harvard animation narrated by Professor Rob Lue introducing mitochondria as the cell's powerhouses and how cells turn food and oxygen into energy.
“a beautiful animation of "Mitochondria: the cell's powerhouse” (HN, 2021)
You want molecular dynamics. They are simulations, not real images. But otoh (visible) light rays are "about as big" as a very large protein, so you can't image them. And because of computational expense they're slow motion by necessity, which is good because very, very complex enzyme interactions means ~2-3000 interactions per second. Example: [this video]
Example of molecular dynamics simulation of enzyme interactions.
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