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Johnathan Ebben: There are more free floating mitochondria in circulation than WBCs?

A collage photo of Johnathan Ebben and Michal Tal

May 13, 2024, 07:43

Johnathan Ebben: There are more free floating mitochondria in circulation than WBCs?

Johnathan Ebben, Oncology Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shared a post by Michal Tal, Immunoengineer at The MIT Department of Biological Engineering on X, adding:

“There are more free floating mitochondria floating in circulation (that work) than WBCs?

What are the implications for cancer biomarkers?

Immune health biomarkers?”

Quoting Michal Tal’s post:

“One of the craziest things I learned last week at AAI2024 was that we have more free-floating extracellular mitochondria in our blood than white blood cells.

This was not in any textbook that I ever read!

Read the original paper.”

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