The Liquid Wall: Where the World Ends and You Begin
The difference between a living organism and a beaker of biochemical soup is surprisingly simple: a boundary.
The Mitochondria Is the Powerhouse of the Cell
If you’ve spent any time on the internet, you’ve seen the joke. Someone asks a biology question and the answer is always, inevitably, without a doubt “mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.” It’s the one biology fact everyone remembers, usually because it was drilled into them so aggressively in school and over the internet that it’s almost impossible to forget. The problem is that’s basically where the explanation stops. Powerhouse of the cell. Great. Thanks. But what does that…