Mitochondria Are the Powerhouse of… Alzheimer’s?

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Some researchers think mitochondria could be hiding the key to Alzheimer's disease. And we may have a new strategy to fight the threat that the global banana industry has been facing for decades.
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[@SciShow]

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[@alto7183]

Las mitocondrias de células de planetas habitables rocosos de 1.5g y 2.0g serían mejores y más eficientes que las de la tierra, más resistencia y capacidad de densidad energética, así como el ser humano a descubierto mejores baterías de sodio, lithio, grafeno, desechos radiactivos y más, en otros planetas habitables y galaxias las formas de vida biológica con las mitocondrias sugerencia.

[@jesipohl6717]

you wouldn't need to dunk the trees in fungus water, the thalus and spores of most fungus could be easily sprayed or "dusted" onto a large amount of trees at the same time.

[@Boo-pv4hn]

I’d love if there is something similar being looked into for stroke victims I’m definitely would be interested in that

[@berlineczka]

Fun fact: the reason why "banana flavoured" things (ice cream, yoghurt, custard etc.) taste distinctively different from actual bananas, is that the artificial banana flavour is the Gros Michel flavour, not the Cavendish one.

[@pikathechao3701]

Guess I would have hated them personally had I been alive to try one at the time

[@dfc666]

Scishow has done a video on the bananas

[@tessat338]

I was reading an article where the researchers postulated that Alzheimer's was actually an autoimmune disorder where the brain's immune system confused the fatty brain tissue with the fatty cell membrane of a bacteria and so the clumps of tau proteins were a symptom of an immune response. It will be interesting to see if they can bring more verifiable evidence to support this hypothesis.

[@Rekaw97]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6DSf6iFgNiUZ7M I think that this theory is more probable especially since everyone produces those clumps according to this scientist.

[@glennmorris25]

much closer to the truth than the brain plaque theory of Alzheimer’s that has driven pharmaceutical research

[@skussy69]

Very interesting

[@somark28]

Wondering why it only triggers at the end of a lifespan

[@tessat338]

@@somark28 Right? It's a bold theory but they need to back it up with evidence.

[@tiffyw92]

As someone who has potentially inherited the risk of Alzheimer's, I just wanna say that "mutant shmoose" is such a powerful phrase before I forget about it.

[@TelPhi_]

It's cool to see that Alzheimer's research is shmooving forwards

[@No_One-._.-]

They actually are almost done with a cure to alzheimers kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnuQkpV3l9x9kNk

[@omarkarem8445]

Lmaooo

[@kathysmith6413]

OMG i knew that name would encouarge homegrown humour but REALLY???? Puns????

[@TelPhi_]

@@kathysmith6413 Yes My humor is completely broken

[@omarkarem8445]

@@TelPhi_ lmaoo

[@HexLabz]

"You can't really be dunking entire fields of banana trees in fungus water." This just feels like the bat signal for Florida man.

[@tomheineman4369]

This story went from Alzheimer's to bananas really quickly. I guess you really wanted to tell us about bananas.

[@michaelmicek]

They forgot to make a more substantial transition.

[@BartdeBoisblanc]

So change the title to "When people go Bananas" :D

[@greenseedpod]

Early sign of alzheimer

[@Reptiliomorph]

Can you blame him honestly lol

[@fannyalbi9040]

i thought they are related, bananas 🍌 is susceptible to oxidation that cause melanocytes disease, which believe alzheimer too 😅

[@osmia]

Can you do a SciShow short on how they came up with the name shmoose please

[@Brazil-loves-you]

We NEED this @scishow

[@lakrids-pibe]

Posibly inspired by the Shmoos from the comic strip Li'l Abner.

[@XpIMBOREDXP]

Some scientists I stg were just too damn tired making discoveries Guy was probably explaining his research and had one of those brain farts like the dude who forgot "proton" and just called it a shiny crumb

[@OllyVish]

Mutated shmoose Banana vaccines What a time to be alive

[@FunnyFany]

Banana vaccines Mutated Alzheimer's Shmooze Science is so cool (Now it's a Haiku)

[@levismith5169]

Prisoners realizing mitochondria aren’t going to be their lifting buddies anymore: 😮

[@MrMctastics]

I’ve grown up. I regulate neuron metabolism now

[@ThatFreeWilliam]

If they got ahold of some transport proteins they could just pass through the cell wall.

[@mikaelacash3791]

What a coincidence that you posted this video during Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Month 🙃 Those of us who have mitochondrial disease and are in the mitochondrial disease have known there was a link between the mitochondria and alzheimer's for so long! Glad to see the rest of the world is starting to catch on, too!

[@IDesireToUpliftOthers]

Quandale dingle

[@BillyBobbobbob]

Good for you lol why didn’t you spread the word sooner?

[@mikaelacash3791]

@@BillyBobbobbob We tried, but nobody really pays attention to you when you have a rare disease that they've never heard of. Also, I should have phrased things better. We knew there was a connection, but we hadn't figured out the Shmoose stuff specifically. It makes me happy to see there's mitochondrial research being done outside of the mitochondrial disease community, 'cause that benefits us, too.

[@yardh]

I wasn't thinking 'powerhouse of the cell' I was thinking Parasite eve

[@Thessalin]

And now the opening music is playing in our heads. 🤫

[@garbagegremlins4707]

Wait is parasite eve a meme song or something? I just like the song

[@wigglywrigglydoo]

You either like the classic games, or you're just as old as I am 😏

[@TheEclipsedLock]

Maybe the real mitochondria were the friends we made along the way

[@mohammedkadir3437]

But do they have a double bilayer?

[@horsepowermultimedia]

@@mohammedkadir3437 No.

[@vidwitch1508]

I hope they’re able to find a cure/way to help with Alzheimer’s, I’ve seen it happen in my family a few times and it’s terrifying/sad to lose your family

[@ericshimizukarbstein6885]

I'm always amazed how there are only one species of banana in the USA, here in Brazil we have 5 common species in the entire country (apple banana, dwarf-cavendish banana, silver banana, golden banana and plaintain banana) and about 5 or 6 other species that are usually more common in certain parts of the country (pacova banana, fig banana, and others)

[@thenasadude6878]

Europe too only sees Cavendish in the stores. There was a variant of smaller bananas from Africa for some time, but it was never more than a test. EU has some strange laws, at some point there was one about the allowed curvature range for bananas

[@YellowPenetrator]

how do these different strains taste?

[@setcheck67]

I'm disappointed in produce retail overall. There is a lot of stuff that is never sold, because it's not the ones the majority of people buy. In produce the only stuff worth selling is the majority.

[@AkaiAzul]

@@YellowPenetrator Puerto Rican here, plantain is a heck of a lot less sweet. It's also greener and firmer than the Cavendish, giving it a more savory profile. We often mash, bake, and fry it, similarly to potatoes. Look up Mofongo if you're curious!

[@sagaramskp]

In south india we have dozens. Which i know of. U will get these varieties easily in any small road side shop. And the more regional variety which are not marketed will fill a database

[@stuck_around]

yes doctor i am here for a re-shmooshing

[@Chef_PC]

Alzheimer’s is my existential fear. It is a horrific disease.

[@ShapeDoppelganger]

Don't worry, you'll forget about it sooner or later.

[@plotzsiva3667]

@@ShapeDoppelganger thats evil ………. What was i saying.

[@YellowPenetrator]

I wouldn't have such a big problem with that, as long as loving family members were around. my intellect is not what defines me and I was even born without it. I heard that many undiagnosed parasites can cause many diseases, including alzheimer-like symptoms though, so maybe many more cases will be treatable in near future.

[@setcheck67]

@@YellowPenetrator Having taken care of someone who went through Alzheimer's before they eventually died I can tell you it's on a short list of diseases that take away everything from you. It's not as simple as "loving family members" when you don't know who "these people" are and you think you're being held against your will calling the police on your own family. Before they passed they threw a plate at me thinking I broke into their home and left me with a scar on the right side of my face. If you think there is any positives to Alzheimer's or any hope to it, I must unfortunately tell you there isn't. Once you've fully succumbed to it, you're like a person turned into a zombie, no longer who you were and as good as dead in life.

[@frfrongong9712]

True, its terrible and im hoping for a cure soon, with all the recent advancements in technology and medicine and all that.

[@daianmoi8528]

But if it was so closely tied to mitochondrial dna, wouldn’t we have noticed a correlation of Alzheimer’s being inherited from mothers?

[@dweebteambuilderjones7627]

Read this: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3371291/

[@lintstudios3072]

I don't think mitochondrial DNA is passed down through reproduction, but rather just nuclear cell DNA (I could be wrong).

[@culi7068]

@@lintstudios3072 You are in fact wrong. And this is why mitochondrial DNA is so useful for tracing back lineages. Because it's only passed down from the mother. The idea that both parents contribute an equal amount of hereditary factors to the offspring is kind of a myth in general. The mother actually passes down 100% of the mitochondrial DNA, most of the epigenetic factors, and, at birth, even the initial microbiome which can have lifelong impacts

[@ebob0531]

not necessarily if the mutation occurs later in life from a different gene

[@connor6309]

Not necessarily. The mitochondria doesn’t make most of it’s proteins. 99% are actually made in our nuclear genome and therefore can be inherited from both parents.

[@andrewsuryali8540]

This Cavendish apocalypse thing is mostly a first world problem. I live in the tropics, so my first encounter with a Cavendish banana was when I was 17 staying in UCLA. Even now I have on my dining table three types of bananas, and none of them is a Cavendish.

[@pierrecurie]

or in my case, I rarely eat bananas...

[@culi7068]

The interesting thing is that when it happened the United Fruit Company (who had a monopoly on the industry) spent a lot of money researching solutions. The obvious issue was the monoculture. Scientists bread a huge variety of hybrids with different characteristics and uses and disease resistances. They warned that whatever they go with they will inevitably have another outbreak to deal with eventually so the best strategy going forward would be to start planing more polycultures and many different types of bananas. Instead the bigwigs at the top decided that they already had the solution to diseases: just dump more pesticides. The economics showed higher profit margins from monocultures because they were more predictable and easier to harvest. And pesticides were extremely cheap because nations in the First World had recently banned DBCP for causing infertility and other nasty things to workers. But they had political control over South American countries and made sure that those pesticides would never be banned there. And with all this excess supply, they could buy it for a huge discount And here we are again...

[@julesverneinoz]

I was looking for this comment. India and many tropical Asian countries don't have this problem. I'm always lamenting the dearth of banana varieties where I live (Australia). Ladyfingers is now becoming more available (albeit thrice the price) but this is sad considering just how many variants are available out there.

[@trishapellis]

Yeah here in Spain they have a different type of banana which is the Canary banana. I personally like it less than the Cavendish, but hey, it's there. I also like fried ripe plantains but sadly there's an extra processing step there :P On a different note, the whole world is noticing the lack of genetic diversity in their food right now, as applied to this one single thing they eat, but really it's a widespread problem. There's hundreds of different types of carrots, potatoes, and many other crops, and while the 'version' of these crops that we get in supermarkets tend to be the version that gets sold in supermarkets because it's easiest to mass-produce and know how much bang you're getting for your buck before ever planting anything, those other varieties are important to keep alive. Did you know there's a type of wheat with blue grain kernels? And I hadn't even really heard about all the different colors corn can have until I heard about a different disease affecting maize plants... We should really just stop putting all our eggs in a single basket for every type of crop we eat, and spend more time and effort letting plants breed naturally and seeing what comes out. Of course, with bananas that's unthinkable mainly because when anyone thinks of a banana or plantain nowadays, nobody ever thinks about a thing that contains seeds. If we want seedless bananas, then sexual reproduction is just not an option, so all the different types of bananas and plantains that are available on Earth really have this very same weakness - they're all just groups of clones. Is there even a type of banana eaten by humans that contains seeds?

[@andrewsuryali8540]

@@trishapellis "Is there even a type of banana eaten by humans that contains seeds?" Yes. In fact I have one type of these on my table right now. Usually we either fry or boil this banana or remove the seeds and pulp it into a paste. We call it gravel banana.

[@EmilyJelassi]

I recently learned that I’m missing 2 proteins in my DNA. My oncologist discovered it after doing some genetic tests on the glioma removed from my head in 2021. We were told that it’s unheard of to be missing 2 proteins.. doesn’t even have a name yet! I really hope that CRISPER can be used in the future to somehow put the proteins back into my DNA, but I know that it’s a long shot 😕

[@Lrofmaulol]

I mean, do you actually need to? Does it affect you negatively in any way?

[@SEELE-ONE]

Call dibs on the name for the disease!

[@santircastillo]

Which 2 proteins? It may or may not have any effect on your health depending on what they are

[@DerfLlennod]

honestly, if they find a way to save the cavindish, they could bring back the Gros Michael

[@dweebteambuilderjones7627]

Actually, the Gros Michel still exists and is grown in SE Asia. It got replaced by Cavendish-group bananas in global markets because Panama disease made scaling up production again unprofitable.

[@TheSimo182]

Nothing can stop… the SHMOOSE?

[@Leoevans631]

"I get that reference"

[@joepace1826]

Came for Alzheimer's, left with bananas

[@staticlake3383]

The powerhouse of the cell. It’s been drilled in my brain for more than 8 years

[@julianshepherd2038]

rough school

[@horsepowermultimedia]

Schools would not teach us how to do taxes, but they tell us this over and over.

[@felixrotbuche5852]

I’m not an expert in this field, but I’ve been taught that ApoE4 is the biggest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s associated with a much higher risk increase than 20%.

[@jauume]

Google tells me it can double the risk if you have 1 copy, if you have 2 it increases it by 12 times. Damn.

[@ligh7foo7]

Saving us from a world without smoozhies

[@YellowPenetrator]

underrated

[@Psittacus_erithacus]

Very interesting! Great sponsor too.

[@gailaltschwager7377]

Thank you!

[@ryanblystone5153]

Thank you

[@cloudyview]

That's Bananas.

[@pathtooptimalhealth]

When I hear Mitochondria I think “is my count high enough? Can I perhaps be a Jedi?!” … wait… that’s Midichlorian’s - never mind.

[@twocvbloke]

Sometimes I wonder if scientists just make up or use any old name purely to see how many people they can get to say it trying to sound as professional and well-researched as possible, all while repeatedly saying those words, like Shmoose, they totally are making a joke out of people there... :P

[@garbagegremlins4707]

It’s a Yiddish word

[@icarusbinns3156]

Biologists named a deep-sea mite after J.Lo… because they were listening to her music. She was… pretty okay with this. Even asked what song they were listening to, suggesting she may rewrite it, to showcase this little bug

[@why_though]

Yeah, most of them are intentional jokes. Sarcasm runs ramped in the scientific community.

[@UGNAvalon]

Imagine the poor doctors who have to tell their patients that their genetic disease is caused by a mutation in their Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) gene….

[@T4.Bacteriophage]

@@UGNAvalon Or a patient with congenital MD told their pikachurin proteins are not functioning properly. Most people don’t realize how many funny names for organisms and proteins there are!

[@christianheichel]

GMOs to the rescue They have already made a GMO that is immune to Panama disease

[@WaterZer0]

Umm don't you know GMOs are evil?!

[@n3v3rg01ngback]

The Golgi bodies are the postal service of the cell.

[@General12th]

Hi Stefan!

[@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812]

Cool thanks

[@TalaAtTanagra]

I want to know if this can be related to the etiology of MEcfs and Long Covid.

[@microdosenyc4515]

This is partly why shrooms are a great balm for everything. In the case for Alzheimer They increase intracellular communication, reduce inflammation, promotes neural growth in the hippocampus and improve mitochondrial biosynthesis and function.

[@nathanlevesque7812]

For a moment I thought they were going to talk about how with CFS/ME the mitochondria get widely damaged or destroyed.

[@lakrids-pibe]

*The Shmoos* - the fictional creature from the comic strip *Li'l Abner* by Al Capp - are one of the best satirical creations from american comics of all times.

[@SathReacts]

banana bread would have been a good pivot to a 'hello fresh' sponsor. Missed opportunity.

[@rndm_dude4202]

"Lose memory, shmoose memory, it's not that big a deal right? Wait, what did I say?" My favorite thing I said the first time I smoked weed. I can't believe shmoose is a real word already 🤣

[@bubblesnbeans8632]

“Shmoose” is how I describe the texture of my brain

[@ToastGreeting]

I am happy that I heard about the Cavendish nanners before this video. Before learning, they were just regular bananas to me.

[@FarhanAmin1994]

That’s one beautiful and wonderfully pressed dark blue shirt!

[@JayDawn01]

Okay who got to come up with the name shmoose

[@cyrilio]

I’d like to request a video on how some novel research is suggesting that psychedelics can help treat migraines and cluster headaches.

[@Rekaw97]

Also depression, PTSD ,BPD, chronic pain, as well as dealing with idea of death for terminally ill.

[@ostsan8598]

They already made a video on that subject a few years ago.

[@GR3YS0RG4N1CS]

I'd like to introduce you to MAPS if you're not aware of them m.kzbin.info

[@Blewlongmun]

@@ostsan8598 Recent legal changes have allowed relatively more studies though, there's some promising pilots for nearly every mental illness.

[@gregstrosnider3505]

Psilocybin can treat and potentially prevent both for months at a time from a single dose.

[@LeoAngora]

Thanks for the video with the decent sponsor!

[@nenaj8053]

In spinal muscular atrophy - SMN1 mutation causes defective snRNP assembly - Zolegensma - costs 2.1 million euros (1 dose drug is used to stop/ prevent SMA. This gene therapy drug works by using a virus to carry the correction to the Genome with the mutations. So I was wondering - could Alzhiemers be treated the same way as Zolgensma treats Spinal Muscular Atrophy? If it does please dont sell it for millions of dollars.

[@erlanvega8591]

Scientists can happily say I work with smoosh. Coolest research ever.

[@roguedogx]

Awesome! news on the Alzheimer's advancement.

[@GR3YS0RG4N1CS]

It's almost like the shortcuts capitalism has taken in the name of profits has created a massive problem that now needs to be addressed before serious consequences arise... Capitalists saw that cloning bananas would allow for more production of bananas that would bring them profit. But instead of selective breeding which takes longer and creates a lot of "bad apples" (nasty bananas) along the way, they chose to clone the Gros Michel and caused a fungal pandemic that devastated the economies and more importantly, the farmers in Central America that depended on the export of their bananas.

[@dweebteambuilderjones7627]

You can't selectively breed bananas like that, they can't reproduce sexually. Literally, they're all sterile.

[@marylefever1065]

I had to watch the video twice because I never heard him refer to mitochondria or micro proteins in the discussion of bannana disease resistance. I inferred that since they are clones, they contain identical mitochondrial DNA. So is that the source of proteins that confer Panama Disease resistance? Also an explanation of the apparent merging of mitochondrial DNA from the disease resistant Cavendish bananna with the new TR4 fungus causing Panama Disease should be explained in the the video as the reason for the treated bannanas gaining resistance.

[@Shy--Tsunami]

Linode FTW!!!

[@antonottto]

Can you do something about the findings of preservance? The hopefully organicmatter it found in the soil of Mars! Omg I'm so hyped I stared to shake when I read an artical about it. I'm shocked it is not talked about more in popular culture.

[@Fr00stee]

Organic molecules, they can form by themselves

[@vansdan.]

@@Fr00stee yea, "organic" is either life or just a class of molecules. It's always the latter in cosmology/planetology.... at least for now

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Glad to live in a place where banana is native. We got sooo many types available Cavendish is plain...plain by comparison.

[@irifhir]

Here in brazil we have at least 4 types of banana

[@terryhollands2794]

I wonder if this could be connected to excercise or lack of it.

[@tonyd6853]

When I get shmoosed I get protection from cogdec?

[@dang1099]

You know, maybe its just me, but I wouldn't be mad if the Cavendish went and we got a different Banana. Imo the Cavendish isn't really that good..

[@EnchWraits]

Just bring back gros michel after making it resistant

[@argenteus8314]

But there ARE plenty of other kinds of bananas. Not to say plant inoculation isn't potentially useful in general, but wouldn't a better solution to this problem be to grow a wider variety of bananas? I haven't tried that many varieties myself (I'd like to, it's just that most are hard to find), but personally I think the red variety (assuming there's just one, which is probably a bad assumption, so really I mean "the red variety I tried") is better than the cavendish, it's a bit creamier. We don't NEED to have just one banana that's sold in the supermarket. Variety is a good thing, not everything needs to be standardized.

[@ps.2]

As I understand, the reason most varieties of bananas aren't widespread in temperate regions is that they don't travel well. Not a long enough time window between harvesting and rotting. If you're in a climate where you can grow bananas _locally,_ this isn't a problem.

[@argenteus8314]

@@ps.2 We certainly don't grow bananas locally where I live, so the red variety at least must travel fine.

[@rox4884]

It would be great if they could inoculate enough cavanish bananas that they could graft gros Michelles onto them.

[@beowulf2772]

In the future we will eventually run out conventional names that we will name new discoveries like fortnite-sample7776 or something and it all started with shmoose

[@civictunerz]

Damn it, I love bananas but hate the ending to The Notebook. I hope they figure this out.

[@blink182bfsftw]

SCHMOOZE sounds like something from Rick & Morty

[@nutzeeer]

Why not make gros michel resistant by inoculating with the new variant?

[@emmanone621]

my mistake was thinking my chem-fried brain would be able to process a single word of this after spending all day in the lab at my uni lol

[@torijones1861]

The bananas are going to make human bread to get themselves through the pandemic.

[@raskov75]

Since mutations are more or less random can’t we use crispr to randomly change bits of banana dna to artificially derive a new variety?

[@Graeme_Lastname]

Maybe, in the future, we can have bananas that taste like bananas.

[@donaldbond4304]

You might do an episode on the ways risk is reported in biomedicine. I.E. Absolute risk (reduction/increase) vs relative risk (reduction/increase). Stating a gene increases risk by 20-50% is a meaningless statement at best and needlessly deceptive at worst without that concept applied to it.

[@kathysmith6413]

and it looks like many have been int Greek Myths and are helping Pundora flip her lid.

[@adrianrocha49]

Wow, so literally, you shmoose you lose. (Your Memories)

[@arthursamuel301]

This whole damn video I'm waiting for the prank reveal istg

[@samyouel4596]

From what ive learnt in my life, mitochondrial disfunction seems to be the main factor of most inflammatory diseases including cancers and Alzheimers. Different causes for it can come from 1. genetic mutations that have been passed on or caused by stress/trauma, 2. bad diets that include high amounts of omega-6s and other polyunsaturated/trans fatty acids, that lead to the atrophy and malfunction of mitochondia (and therefore cell disfunction or mutation and insulin resistance/obesity by way of not being able to use glucose) 3. carbon monoxide that we breath in every day from car exhausts and other pollutants which are know to harm mitochondria Ultimately mitchodrial disfunction is the root cause of most inflamatory/metabolic diseases, and then high BGL and triglycerides from excessive carbohydrate consumption fuels the fire so to speak.

[@PhillipE1210]

So you’re telling me… I’ve been lied to my whole LIFE?

[@gregbits6109]

Bananas are so the type of fruit we’ll be telling our grandkids about 😂

[@katx9697]

What about cloning the original banana with the caverndish ndish. Surely we have residual dna from the original banana through various items such as wood, leaves and peel isn't there a way of using the same techniques we use to reconstruct dna chains in samples, for forensic purposes. Why don't we use the same method to created a viable cluster of cells that could be used to germinate a caverndish banana plant thus deversifying the banana Gnome. I mean surely someone thought about this right, we've learnt our lesson haven't we?

[@MonkeyspankO]

There are plenty of varieties of banana, but people may not like their size/flavor profile.

[@maria-vz1ls]

true

[@darko.v]

They should just call it something different and start putting it next to bananas on store shelves

[@gildedbear5355]

@@darko.v just start referring to it by its cultivar/variety name like they do with apples

[@MonkeyspankO]

@@gildedbear5355 good idea

[@pvic6959]

@@darko.v they do that already lol

[@elinope4745]

When I was young my brother told me that if I shmoose I lose. Ends up he was wrong, if you don't shmoose you lose.

[@colinz226]

Could this work backwards? Could we dunk some of the remaining gros Michelle banana specimens into TR4 to try and make them resistant to original Panama disease?

[@ps.2]

I had the same question. Seems worth trying! But I'm sure the researchers thought of that.

[@deepsy2k]

I bet they called it like this just so they could giggle every time a seriously-looking profesor says SHMOOSE 😂😂😂

[@TehJimlad]

Top 5 anime betrayals

[@pwhales264]

Shrooms 🍄 has been shown to help correct Alzheimer's too.

[@ana-zb7ix]

Bananas? Oh no

[@jissanboermans5009]

Wait!!! Are you saying... you Schmoose you loose??

[@garrettmineo]

Attack of the banana clones!

[@benr7294]

Has anyone hit up Paul Stamets on a answer on how to battle the fungus with funguys

[@patriciaangelapainter8278]

it was like first glance before opening this,that was a autoimmune disorder from yesterday news.

[@juniormynos9457]

Is the original banana fruit still around or is it extinct?

[@dweebteambuilderjones7627]

It's still around, just heavily localized. And it's not the "original", per se; the domestic banana is a hybrid of wild species with large seeds, both of which are incidentally also still around.

[@sirlagsalot101]

I love biology and its ridiculous names for things

[@robertross2164]

Baby don't worry cause I got that shmoose.

[@stepchildofsoul]

I was just wondering what the Shmoos were up to these days...

[@ikbendusan]

release the shmoose

[@douglasdonaldson2510]

yes we have no bananas todayyyy

[@BirchTreeReborn]

Fingers crossed for the return of the gros michel.

[@MayaUndefined]

I didn't even eat the chocolate schmoose. 💀⚰️

[@Avabees]

There are actually a lot of sweeter species of bananas that would make great replacements! Check out weird fruit explorer❤

[@mightychondriaofthecell3317]

I am apalled that you would accuse my bretheren and I of such a horrendous disease! Shame on you, Scishow!