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Obviously the article is challenging the view — scientific or not — that mitochondria are not living.

Side note: previously I was funded by NSF and NASA to study such questions from biophysics and astrobiology.

That said, this was a delightful read. I did not realize or conceive of mitochondria as, like bacteria in our bodies, independent living networks with unique genomes, evolution, and flows of information and energy.

Reading about the health benefits of “external mitochondria” made me think about when I hug my dog: are we exchanging mitochondria, perhaps?