Posted: 8/5/2018
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Just read this great article: Tethered in the Cell Weizmann researchers identify new ties between the parts of a cell: physical connections that are vital for health
Science Does Not Know Anything
Or so it seems! Humanity gives way too much credence to science! Socrates forgive me that I have borrowed your famous phrase.
It appears, it was only discovered a few years ago or so that the many and varied organelles (e.g. mitochondria, endoplasmic Reticulum, lysosomes) in our cells have contact sites to contact each other and that they also tether with each other. That is almost incredible after more than 100 years of intense cell research!
““We found that all of the organelles that we tagged are able to physically interact with all of the others,” ... “Tethers organize the cell and assign locations to the organelles. For example, if two organelles must work closely together, they will naturally be tethered together in a certain area of the cell. Tethering also seems to be a way of efficiently transferring, from one organelle to another, certain materials and messages that could do harm in the wrong places …” (emphasis added)
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