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In your body, energy needs to be produced in the right amount, in the right place, at the right time, and it goes through an unimaginably fast recycling process that involves #mitochondria.
In your body, energy needs to be produced in the right amount, in the right place, at the right time, and it goes through an unimaginably fast recycling process that involves #mitochondria.
The #mitochondria that aren’t moving appear to stay in places where things are always happening—either near factories where proteins are made (ribosomes) or synapses where there is a lot of activity, which is a very important fact relevant to how the #brain functions.
Researchers looking at #braincells under #microscopes have known for decades how to identify where the synapses are—they look for the mitochondria.
