Researchers identify the most promising advancements and greatest challenges of artificial mitochondria and chloroplasts. The team describes the components required to construct synthetic ...

The team describes the components required to construct synthetic mitochondria and chloroplasts and identifies proteins as the most important aspects for molecular rotary machinery, proton ...

Now, the consortium of scientists, known as Building a Synthetic Cell (BaSyc), has put out two papers. Published in Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Communications, respectively, they detail ...

In two recently published papers, scientists successfully recreated the mitochondria (in a simple form) and biochemical nutrient transport throughout a synthetic cell.

For the first time ever, researchers in New Zealand have shown that mitochondrial DNA can move between cells in an animal tumor. It's an extraordinary ...

Synthetic mitochondrial protonophores uncouple ATP production, increasing tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle activity and fat ...

Engineering yeast endosymbionts as a step toward the evolution of mitochondria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2018; 201813143 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1813143115 Cite This Page : ...

A synthetic ER-mitochondrial tether. (a) Mitochondria and ER are tethered by a native complex in yeast cells (top). Mutations to this complex cause slow growth or cell death (middle).

To test whether bacteria could evolve into a mitochondria-like role inside another organism's cells, the Scripps team engineered E. coli and baker's yeast so that they would have to depend on each ...

Mitochondrial DNA resembles that found in certain bacteria, presumably related to the ancestors of mitochondria. In eukaryotes, the nucleus stores and replicates genetic information, and the ...

We’ve probably all heard of mitochondria, and we may even remember learning in school that they are the “powerhouses of the cell” – but what does that actually mean, and how did they evolve?