Mitochondria

Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the wonders of the natural world. In 1875 in the western Pacific, the crew of HMS Challenger discovered the Mariana Trench which turned out to be deeper than Everest is high, by two kilometres. Trenches like Mariana form when one tectonic pl ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution of lungs and of the first breaths, which can be traced back 400 million years to when animal life spread from rock pools and swamps onto land, as some fish found an evolutionary advantage in getting their oxygen from air rather than w ...  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