Comment by scotty79
1 day ago
Can you point me to anything about mitochondrial transplants? I'd love to see bat mitochondria transplanted into other mammals. They must have really superior ones given the energy expenditures needed to support flight and their long lifespans.
I will let the experts continue from here :) This review is from 2020, i bet things have progressed since then
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7169912/
It's not so much a mitochondrial transplant, as it is fertilized egg nucleus transplant. Not just mitochondria are used from the third donor but their whole egg (sans nucleus). So unless a human might develop from a bat egg just from swapping out nucleus, which I'm sure it's not the case, super-powered batman must remain a fantasy.
Oh, so that's what you were aiming for, LOL
there are many reasons for this chimera not to be viable, mitochondria co-evolves with the nuclear DNA, you can't just take a mitochondria from a totally different species
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I don't, isn't this the recipe to get IRL Morbius?
Or Man-Bat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Bat
Batboy, real at last