My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered a groundbreaking discovery in the fight against heart disease. They found ...

Hepatocarcinoma is the most commonly diagnosed form of liver cancer. It is an aggressive, fast growing cancer with a 5-year ...

Changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight muscles provide extra ...

Using the gene scissors CRISPR and stem cells, researchers at Stockholm University and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK ...

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 ...

Estrogen-related receptors (ERRs) regulate muscle mitochondria in mice, revealing a new potential drug targets for metabolic ...

By slicing a donated brain into more than seven hundred small cubes and measuring both the number of mitochondria and their energy output in each piece, they discovered that mitochondria vary ...