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?

The human brain runs on a tight energy budget. Despite making up only 2% of our body weight, it devours around 20% of our ...

Scientists in Basel revealed that energy-producing proteins in mitochondria form large supercomplexes, boosting ATP ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Many bacterial genes were transferred from the genome of the endosymbiont to the eukaryotic nuclear genome during evolution of the mitochondria. How do scientists believe this transfer could have ...

Although the brain represents only 2% of body weight, it consumes 20% of our energy. A recent study sheds light on the ...

ETH researchers discovered related structures in Asgard archaea and describe their structure. These experiments show that ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

Mitochondria are the powerhouses in our cells, producing the energy for all vital processes. Using cryo-electron tomography, researchers have now gained insight into the architecture of mitochondria ...

Evolution, and the ways in which the kingdom ... (The common ancestor had earlier engulfed a different bacterium that became the mitochondrion, an organelle that fuels both plant and animal ...