{"id":97640,"date":"2019-10-20T21:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T04:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/for-years-scientists-assumed-mitochondria-worked-like-household-batteries-energy-from-chemical-reactions-inside-a-cell"},"modified":"2019-10-20T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T04:22:40","slug":"for-years-scientists-assumed-mitochondria-worked-like-household-batteries-energy-from-chemical-reactions-inside-a-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/for-years-scientists-assumed-mitochondria-worked-like-household-batteries-energy-from-chemical-reactions-inside-a-cell","title":{"rendered":"For years, scientists assumed mitochondria worked like household batteries: energy from chemical reactions inside a cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-years-scientists-assumed-mitochondria-worked-like-household-batteries-energy-from-chemical-reactions-inside-a-cell2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers now have shown that they are instead made up of many individual bioelectric units generating energy- like a Tesla Battery. <a href=\"https:\/\/embopress.org\/doi\/10.15252\/embj.2018101056&amp;h=AT3OHOR9YNgIqsHb4XFIbhoUpBL19EVLq8Q_PMYJVsGQ9H0SjeCMHy_rqVPMi0G6bHdKB-1f0T-u6LjGFeEOQg-F7WCyTVtTdjsgvkooSCBz7E97_40PIWv3rwCXenFxiixIuleO8vaIbrW7nPivqw6_aeusnhWBaNGD1X7O5WUti9cHz2XtvnuqUCir7ik\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"asynclazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/embopress.org\/doi\/10.15252\/embj.2018101056&amp;h=AT3OHOR9YNgIqsHb4XFIbhoUpBL19EVLq8Q_PMYJVsGQ9H0SjeCMHy_rqVPMi0G6bHdKB-1f0T-u6LjGFeEOQg-F7WCyTVtTdjsgvkooSCBz7E97_40PIWv3rwCXenFxiixIuleO8vaIbrW7nPivqw6_aeusnhWBaNGD1X7O5WUti9cHz2XtvnuqUCir7ik\">https:\/\/embopress.org\/doi\/10.15252\/embj.2018101056&amp;h=AT3\u2026nuqUCir7ik<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2J4Tkho&amp;h=AT1YJICM5AliiHbU1dzQWsUOBj2Pv4xtByB3fbIBPGc8lCIVRDcbF7TKoRDb-vS462-lUwG8S2p_KEHWyadiyzY1VIU6SvSlk69qNWBTeWWjkX3Wj0SLp1Tui0VwpSFHVAZG5eAMbU-\\-\\DuoKFZH11ht3gbqMTwxduJkRJYCYZr7uE11trWGGCm-ecSp9kMw\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"asynclazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2J4Tkho&amp;h=AT1YJICM5AliiHbU1dzQWsUOBj2Pv4xtByB3fbIBPGc8lCIVRDcbF7TKoRDb-vS462-lUwG8S2p_KEHWyadiyzY1VIU6SvSlk69qNWBTeWWjkX3Wj0SLp1Tui0VwpSFHVAZG5eAMbU-\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2J4Tkho&amp;h=AT1YJICM5AliiHbU1dzQWsUOBj2Pv4x\u2026AZG5eAMbU\u2013<\/a>\\-\\DuoKFZH11ht3gbqMTwxduJkRJYCYZr7uE11trWGGCm-ecSp9kMw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers now have shown that they are instead made up of many individual bioelectric units generating energy- like a Tesla Battery. https:\/\/embopress.org\/doi\/10.15252\/embj.2018101056&amp;h=AT3\u2026nuqUCir7ik https:\/\/bit.ly\/2J4Tkho&amp;h=AT1YJICM5AliiHbU1dzQWsUOBj2Pv4x\u2026AZG5eAMbU\u2013\\-\\DuoKFZH11ht3gbqMTwxduJkRJYCYZr7uE11trWGGCm-ecSp9kMw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97640","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=97640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}