In Popular Culture
In Madeleine L'Engle's A Wind in the Door, the Farandolae are fictional creatures that live inside mitochondria, and do circular "dances" around their "trees of origin".
In the 2012 feature film The Bourne Legacy, the green pills taken by Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) contain a virus that implants itself in the user's cells, increasing mitochondrial output.
Read more about this topic: Mitochondrion
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