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“Corporeal reality is much more rich and precious than we realize. It feels good to have a body, to surge on currents of emotion, to have nerve endings, mitochondria in our cells, tangible focused energy, the embodiment of light — given a voice.”

Light Voice Emotions Sensuality Sensual Physicality Body Mind Spirit Mitochondria

Book:The Look of Amie Martine

Source: The Look of Amie Martine

“Were it not for the melanin in our skin, myoglobin in our muscles and haemoglobin in our blood, we would be the colour of mitochondria. And, if this were so, we would change colour when we exercised or ran out of breath, so that you could tell how energized someone was from his or her colour.”

Cells Biology Mitochondria

Book:The Energy of Life

Source: The Energy of Life

“Glyphosate also interferes with ATP production by affecting your mitochondrial membranes. When coupled with the so-called inert solvents included in Roundup, the toxicity of glyphosate is magnified as much as 2,000-fold. This makes the membrane more permeable, allowing the glyphosate to go straight to the heart of the mitochondria.”

Autism Deadly Mitochondria Atp Glyphosate Roundup

Book:Fat for Fuel: A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, and Increase Your Energy

Source: Fat for Fuel: A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, and Increase Your Energy

“It seems that all eukaryotic cells either have, or once had (and then lost) mitochondria. In other words, possession of mitochondria is a sine qua non of the eukaryotic condition”

Science Biology Mitochondria

Book:Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

Source: Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

“I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a cell? One. Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Not ready for prime time, that one.”

Thinking Trying Doe Humor Might Funny Study Subjects Ready Materials Cells Prime Not Ready Prime Time Mitochondria

Book:Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories

Source: Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories

“Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.”

Long Asks Fun Term Long Term Symbiosis Mitochondria

Author:Larry Wall

“We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours.”

Made Energy Shining Improvement Driving Cells Providing Strict Interiors Mitochondria

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in sheer dry bulk as there is the rest of me. Looked at in this way, I could be taken for a very large, motile colony of respiring bacteria, operating a complex system of nuclei, microtubules, and neurons for the pleasure and sustenance of their families, and running, at the moment, a typewriter.”

Way Moments Running Pleasure Taken Complexes Dry Proportion Sheer Calculations Colony Typewriters Sustenance Neurons Bacteria Nucleus Complex Systems Mitochondria

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”

Source: All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

“Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.”

Body Light Names Half Microscopes Mitochondria

Author:Albert Claude