Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and lengthen lives
Mitochondria, the organelles in question, are best known as power packs—places where glucose molecules are disassembled to release the energy that drives metabolism. Boosting a failing cell’s metabolic processes by adding new mitochondria could thus be a smart move. But that is just a start. These organelles, the descendants of bacteria that cosied up with
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