In an intriguing revelation from recent research, mitochondria have been shown not only to power the cell but also to ...

Bits of DNA from mitochondria can skip surprisingly fast into our genome and may reduce lifespan M ost of us remember two ...

Spanish scientists have pinpointed a key protein in the fat-burning process that shields the body from obesity and metabolic ...

Mitochondria are often referred to as the energy factories of cells, generating ATP that the body employs for numerous tasks. Nonetheless, our mitochondria’s operation tends to deteriorate as we ...

Mitochondria are vital to energy production in cells and so play a key role in fueling cancer growth. However, how ...

Biocell Energetics measures extracellular flux in real time which helps drug developers identify drug-induced mitochondrial ...

How do mitochondria choose which of these two opposing paths to take? "That was the question we set out to answer," says ...

The egg attacks and destroys the cellular "power plants" (mitochondria) from the sperm that had fertilized it, so that only its own mitochondria remain. These findings from a new Weizmann ...

Obesity, which affects 650 million people worldwide, influences the development of cardiometabolic diseases and increases the risk of cancer.

The team says it overcame a significant challenge to break up structures inside these cellular energy centers (mitochondria) with a technique—mLumiOpto—that induces light-activated electrical ...