{"id":25739,"date":"2016-05-14T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T19:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/scientists-have-discovered-a-cell-that-does-something-they-thought-was-impossible"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:59:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:59:42","slug":"scientists-have-discovered-a-cell-that-does-something-they-thought-was-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/scientists-have-discovered-a-cell-that-does-something-they-thought-was-impossible","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have discovered a cell that does something they thought was impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-discovered-a-cell-that-does-something-they-thought-was-impossible.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Odd, but definitely interesting.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For a long time it has been thought that all eukaryotes \u2014 organisms in which the DNA is enclosed in a membrane including almost all life we can see \u2014 had to contain mitochondria.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the \u201cpower house\u201d of the cell, these little subunits within the cell provide the organisms with energy and were thus thought to be essential.<\/p>\n<p>But it now seems that actually they might not be that essential, <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-05-eukaryote-lacks-mitochondria.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">as researchers describe<\/a> the first eukaryote known that lacks mitochondria.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/first-eukaryote-with-no-mitochondria-2016-5\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/first-eukaryote-with-no-mitochondria-2016&#45;5<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting\u2026 Odd, but definitely interesting. For a long time it has been thought that all eukaryotes \u2014 organisms in which the DNA is enclosed in a membrane including almost all life we can see \u2014 had to contain mitochondria. Known as the \u201cpower house\u201d of the cell, these little subunits within the cell provide the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25739","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67496,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25739\/revisions\/67496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}