Mitochondria are the energy factory of every cell in our bodies. “There’s a theory that mitochondria used to be bacteria that entered the developing cell about one and a half billion years ago and became a part of the cell, using the oxygen and nutrients we take in to produce an energy ‘coin’ called ATP that enables everything in the cell to happen,” she tells ISRAEL21c. ”Yivgi-Ohana says that four other companies are developing techniques for direct injection of mitochondria and one other is experimenting with mitochondrial cell therapy