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In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

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Every morning Kathy Reagan Young steps out of the shower in her Virginia Beach home, towels off, dons a pair of protective goggles and stands nine inches from a light box the size of a small space ...