Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

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

and other body parts. Mitochondria diseases often occur when the mitochondria don’t function as they should. Sometimes these diseases are due to an underlying disease or condition such as ...

They found that the parts of the brain that evolved most recently in our lineage not only contain more mitochondria but also house mitochondria tuned to work more efficiently. This resource ...

Cell death, also called apoptosis, is an essential part of life. As cells become old or broken, they are cleared away and destroyed. Mitochondria help decide which cells are destroyed ...

A recent study from the University of Copenhagen has brought new understanding to Parkinson’s disease, which is the second ...

Inside mitochondria, the biochemicals are part of ATP synthesis, but outside the cell, abnormal levels of the biochemicals signal mitochondrial dysfunction. The researchers suggest that “suicide ...

More broadly, the study challenges the long-held assumption that mitochondria work the same way throughout all parts of the neuron. Instead, neurons may actively modify mitochondrial properties to ...