Sentences with phrase «than functional mitochondria»
Chu says the study emphasizes that healthy cells need more than functional mitochondria — they need to support a kind of mitochondrial life cycle that involves continuous genesis, repair and recycling.
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Despite remarkably high levels of stress, mitochondria, like cells, can remain functional and withstand infection for longer than previously thought.
Most of the possible approaches may or may not work well, because of the replication advantage that damaged mitochondria have over normal mitochondria, and are still to be tested in practice rather than theory or demonstration: upregulation of existing repair mechanisms; delivery of extra functional mitochondrial DNA or whole mitochondria; and so forth.