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   Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 16:19:45 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces

   The common perception of mitochondria as bean-shaped likely stems from textbook and cartoon depictions,” he says, which are in turn based on microscope images of thin slices through them. “These two-dimensional views do not fully capture the complex and dynamic mitochondrial networks present in most cells.”

   https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-00269-y/index.html

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     N0tSure (n0tsure@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 20:35:45 JST N0tSure

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     @bruces Theory goes that they were independent cells initially, so that makes sense.