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 ...

Due to their similarities to bacteria, mitochondria can actually trigger severe illness in humans. How can organelles inside our bodies suddenly become a threat? What evidence did Margulis use to ...

Mitochondria arose through a fateful endosymbiosis more than 1.45 billion years ago. Many mitochondria make ATP without the help of oxygen. Aa Aa Aa What variety is there in mitochondria?

In this article, Thermo Scientific Visualization Data Solutions discusses how a study using Amira software can help explain why we lose muscle mass as we age.

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

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 ...

The "power plants" of living cells, the mitochondria, probably evolved through endosymbiosis: A bacterium migrated into a primordial cell and eventually developed into an organelle that provides the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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