Andrew Huberman· PhD
So I think we're at this point in mitochondrial science where we need to adopt a similar level of specificity. There are different types of mitochondria. We call those mitoypes.
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So I think we're at this point in mitochondrial science where we need to adopt a similar level of specificity. There are different types of mitochondria. We call those mitoypes.
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uh and then those mitochondria there's a single type of mitochondria in there and then when it's fertilized development happens in this beautiful uh process and through that process as the heart starts to form the brain starts to form the muscles start to form the mitochondria differentiate and then you end up with different types of mitochondria that are adapted and matched to the different demands of of of cell types of organs.
And now we have a new method. There's a wonderful scientist in her group, Anna Monzel, who's developed a method to profile different types of mitochondria. We call this mitotyping.