{"id":163920,"date":"2023-05-15T08:22:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-new-organelle-has-been-found-in-cells"},"modified":"2023-05-15T08:22:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:22:33","slug":"a-new-organelle-has-been-found-in-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-new-organelle-has-been-found-in-cells","title":{"rendered":"A new organelle has been found in cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-organelle-has-been-found-in-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rockefeller University researchers have discovered a new organelle inside the gut cells of the fruit fly \u2014 a surprise discovery, staring us in the face, in one of the most well-studied animals in all of science.<\/p>\n<p>The new organelle stockpiles phosphate, an electrolyte essential to life. When faced with a shortage, it releases its reservoir in the form of phospholipids, which are a key component of the membrane structure of cells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the first studies to actually find phosphate storage in an animal cell,\u201d Rebekka Wild told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-01518-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nature\u2019s Gemma Conroy<\/a>. A structural biologist at French state research organization the <em>Centre national de la recherche scientifique<\/em>, Wild was not involved with the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockefeller University researchers have discovered a new organelle inside the gut cells of the fruit fly \u2014 a surprise discovery, staring us in the face, in one of the most well-studied animals in all of science. The new organelle stockpiles phosphate, an electrolyte essential to life. When faced with a shortage, it releases its reservoir [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}