Scientific · Biology
How Mitochondria Learned to Multitask
The organelle that runs energy, signalling and its own tiny genome, all at once.
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Mitochondria are usually introduced as the cell’s power plant. That description is true and also years out of date.
Recent work treats them as signalling hubs as much as energy factories, coordinating decisions the rest of the cell depends on.
A power plant doesn’t usually get a vote in company strategy. Mitochondria do.
That reframing matters for how the next generation of biology textbooks get written, and for how investors read early-stage biotech pitches that lean on mitochondrial targets.