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A New Kind of Mitochondria
- anonymous_sorry 2y agoIs the title here quite right? It sounds more like mitochondria can specialise their biochemistry depending on the needs of the cell.
- cbogie 2y agoor a new understanding of mitochondrial categories according to specialization of function
- partomniscient 2y ago...and also the state of their neighbours which makes me start thinking of Conway's Game of Life...
- anonymous_sorry 2y agoThis is quite common in cellular differentiation. Say a tissue needs a few cells of a certain type, roughly evenly spaced throughout. One strategy to achieve this is for all cells in the region to have a tendancy towards developing those characteristics, but also for the quickest to do so to simultaneously produce a messaging molecule that suppresses that tendency in its near neighbours.
- _yb2s 2y agoThe title is wrong, and is not the actual title of the paper. They discovered some new aspects of how regular mitochondria work, not a new kind of mitochondria.
- troymc 2y agoMy take: In mitochondria, there is a trade-off between making ATP and making the building blocks of proteins. Different mitochondria can specialize in doing one or the other.
- grey413 2y agoYep, that was also my takeaway. In addition, the population of mitochondria regulates the proportion of their specializations via fission and fusion among themselves. I wonder if there are any disorders related to disregulation in the process.
- _yb2s 2y agoYes, there are many mitochondrial diseases related to defects in fission and fusion- it seems plausible that something like what you are suggesting is involved.
- Traubenfuchs 2y agoI wonder if we could harvest the mitochondria of top athletes and geniuses, breed them and put them in lesser people to make them into better people!
- _yb2s 2y agoSlow down there Dr. Strangelove
- readthenotes1 2y agoHe'd have to do it without telling us to earn the moniker Dr Strangelove wouldn't he?
- dopylitty 2y agoI call it..the Wolfram Apparatus
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