Nirosha (Narosha/Nirosha) Murugan (guest/researcher)
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Radiolab
The Spark of Life
It's the skeleton, the scaffolding of the cell.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
It's specifically made up of various proteins.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
And one of our interests within this scaffold is called microtubules.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
They're the ones that help create that shape of the cell.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
Because if we look at images of a cell, you can actually see mitochondria really, really close to the cytoskeletal rods.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
And they get moved along the cytoskeleton, like little train tracks to physically move within cells.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
Oh, mitochondria themselves will attach on to these microtubules and
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
I mean, and that's how things move within the cell.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
It's not just like random blobs floating around.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
I mean, it sounded like everything was floating.