No layman's discussion about mitochondria is complete without the In Our Time episode on just that:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001md34

It is one of my favourites.

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vaguely related there is a fantastic new PBS Space Time this week which suggests the "no alien life" fermi paradox may be related to how our mitochondria evolved by a series of fortunate accidents which may not be reproducible elsewhere

https://www.pbs.org/video/is-there-a-simple-solution-to-the-...

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abvzkSJEhKk )

What is the typical lifespan of ATP within a cell?

Are we talking milliseconds or minutes?

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