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#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines
Lex Fridman Podcast
What's the Magic Moment Along That Line?
Bacteria are mostly single cells. They do make colonies, they get together in biofilms which are really important. The key is making an organism where cells do different things. We have skin cells and eye cells and brain cells. Bacteria never do that; probably energy, bacteria can't make enough energy to do that. There was another cell existing at the time, the archaea. That idea is that bacteria went into an archaea and became the modern day mitochondria - the energy factory of the cell. And that now led that cell develop into more and more complicated organisms like we have today. It was all about energy. So the mitochondria, the energy, the mitochondria
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