{"id":216638,"date":"2025-06-26T01:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-discover-unknown-organelle-inside-our-cells"},"modified":"2025-06-26T01:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:22:13","slug":"scientists-discover-unknown-organelle-inside-our-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-discover-unknown-organelle-inside-our-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover unknown organelle inside our cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-unknown-organelle-inside-our-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discovery of an unknown organelle inside our cells could open the door to new treatments for devastating inherited diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/organelle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">organelle<\/a>, a type of specialized structure, has been dubbed a \u201chemifusome\u201d by its discoverers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. This little organelle has a big job helping our cells sort, recycle and discard important cargo within themselves, the scientists say. The new discovery could help scientists better understand what goes wrong in genetic conditions that disrupt these essential housekeeping functions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is like discovering a new recycling center inside the cell,\u201d said researcher Seham Ebrahim, Ph.D., of UVA\u2019s Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics. \u201cWe think the hemifusome helps manage how cells package and process material, and when this goes wrong, it may contribute to diseases that affect many systems in the body.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery of an unknown organelle inside our cells could open the door to new treatments for devastating inherited diseases. The organelle, a type of specialized structure, has been dubbed a \u201chemifusome\u201d by its discoverers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. This little organelle has a big [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216638","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}