Mitochondria

Misha Glenny delves in to the In Our Time archive to select ten episodes for listeners to revisit. His third choice, first released in November 2014, is the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut, whose name means 'foremost of noble ladies'. She ruled Egypt from about 1479 - 1458 BC and som ...  Show more

Misha Glenny delves in to the In Our Time archive to select ten episodes for listeners to revisit. His second choice, first released in December 2019, is the history and social impact of coffee. From its origins in Ethiopia, coffea arabica spread through the Ottoman Empire before ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth. Inside each cell of every complex organism there are structures known as mitochondria. The 19th century scientists who first observed them thought they were bacteria which had somehow invad ...  Show more

Mitochondria are known as the powerhouse of the cell—but new research suggests they might be far more complex. Columbia University’s Martin Picard joins Scientific American’s Rachel Feltman to explore how these tiny organelles could be communicating and what that might mean for e ...  Show more

Healthy aging research has shown the critical role played by the tiny powerhouse within our cells – the mitochondria. Dr. Anurag Signh joins Dr. Mindy to explain how every aspect of health and wellbeing comes down to mitochondrial health, wherever you look in the body, the immune ...  Show more

This episode was supported by the Biochemical Society!In this episode, Dr Matt and Dr Mike explore the structure and function of human cells. Including organelles such as the nucleus, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus and more!!For more information on this topi ...  Show more