Earlier this year, a new organelle, the hemifusome, was discovered by researchers at the National Institute of Health (NIH), and the University of Virginia School of Medicine (UVA). The team was co-led by Seham Ebrahim, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics at UVA, and Bechara Kachar, MD, chief of the Laboratory of Cell Structure and Dynamics at the NIH’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDC