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“The mitochondria is your bioenergetics, so your energy in your body is produced by all of the mitochondria in your cells,” Beheshti said.

"We found that mitochondria provide a kind of decision-making aid: they regulate whether a cell undergoes clean, silent apoptosis or releases pro-inflammatory messenger substances," explains Prof.

It's a core function, but little studied in the setting of cancer immunology, especially when compared to other organelles like the mitochondria or endoplasmic reticulum.

Studies in Italy and Japan indicate centenarians in these countries have more of a special variant of DNA found in cellular power plants called mitochondria.

To explore this further, the authors then looked at how different sources of energy are used in the mitochondria when BKCa is functional.