#the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

"The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell."

Will stared at him. "What?"

Nico shuffled on his feet. "The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell," he repeated. "That's some doctory stuff, right?"

Will laughed into his hand. "I'll explain more about it if you help me cut some gauze."

Nico agreed with a smile on his face.

[b0njourbeach]

[torse]

"The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"

[alpirsoahpp]

so genuine question: HOW is elphaba's skin green?

i'm not a scientist or shit but does she have chloroplasts in her skin cells?

did she have some genetic mutation that affected her melanocytes?

and mostly how did a random green potion cause this??? like did the wizard invent CRISPR in oz?

there are trials right now for inserting CRISPR into people using gels, creams, and drinks (among other things)

like holy fuck was elphaba the prototype for a bunch of genetically modified green ozians??

guys i think i'm actually going insane-

[mad-scientist-council]

hello my name is Michael Condria and this is PowerHouse of the Cell!! (A power ballad plays. One so powerful that it overpowers your fucking ear drums. You have tinnitus forever now. Sorry.) YEAH!!!!!

[jay-elyon]

this is lonlon btw

it's @taperecorder-gizmo but as a cell

do not question my sanity lonlon is great

4 anyone that knows abt marlons kins, lonlon and spacebug r canonically twins (aka spacebug split into two one day and poof there was lonlon)

this makes no sense in any way biologically let me have fun <3

[keithkog]

I was obsessed with saying ‘The mitochondria is the power house of the cell’ as a kid who was pretty into science, but also just because it was fun to say. I was surprised to learn people still say that very commonly on Earth.

-Keith

[taperecorder-gizmo]

@milothemuffin broski i drew the cell you send in chat

[a-wild-rene-appeared]

I can’t decide on a decent caption, so here’s a cool science fact: every object that radiates heat glows, even if that glow is so dim that it’s imperceptible to the human eye. But anything with sensitive enough eyes (or a good infrared camera) can see your glow.

[professordrarry]

Underrated joke.

[netheris]

OK I SHIT YOU NOT, I WAS LISTENING TO THE RADIO AND THE LADY SAID 'We may not know which song of Y2K was the best, but we DO know that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.'

I GOT WHIPLASH SO HARD HEARING THAT MEME ON THE RADIO-

[dipperscavern]

Where did you get you username from?

my lil ole noggin 🎀 whenever i’m writing i picture myself as spongebob in that one cave + a little typewriter so i was like HERMMM…. cave = cavern = dipperscavern

[jellyrollin-yo]

I'm long posting

I don't want to sleep. If I sleep it's tomorrow, and I pack the last of my things, break down my bed and panic over having forgotten to pack this that or the other in whichever box is in the uhaul outside. I have to meter out my time and if I sleep in too late I'll have to spend my time putting out job applications to the new area and getting to play some game to try and destress is a non option if I want to have everything finished. I have to be sure my phone has at least a couple albums downloaded so if the data range drops in not stuck surfing satellite radio in my dad's truck, because my suv decided that killing my battery wasn't enough, and now it wants to not speed up quickly. Staying up doesn't help either. I took a uquiz I found earlier and it all but said "you make life in a hopeless situation just to cling to it" and that certainly doesn't soothe the nerves of someone about to ship out halfway across the continental 48. I can't dissociate it anymore if it's starting me down.

Moving will probably be better. Find a new job. Be back with family. Stream, maybe. Figure out how to put down roots in the same place I previously got pulled from.

This is usually what journals are for but Oops, no desk, just a phone in a dark room.

[thornthehellhound]

The sequel to the Michaelwave, The Michaelchondria

[bpod-bpod]

Wrong Fuel

Disrupting the fuel – such as switching from carbohydrates to fats – mitochondria use as the cell's energy source causes muscle wasting, heart failure and death in a mouse model lacking the mitochondrial enzyme Ptpmt1. A cautionary tale for human medications used long-term that affect mitochondrial fuel sources

Read the published research paper here

Image from work by Hong Zheng, Qianjin Li and Shanhu Li, and colleagues

Department of Pediatrics, Children Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, September 2023

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[everyonesroiting]

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