Levels of nutrients and other criteria can tip the balance toward either fusion or division. In some specialized cell types, like neurons and sperm, energy needs are high and mitochondria are ...

An interdisciplinary research team led by Professor Dr. Bent Brachvogel has examined how mitochondria influence the premature ...

A cell is like a factory ... However, too much Drp1 activity causes excessive division, leading to fragmented mitochondria with impaired function. We also observed behavior changes in rats ...

Without cell division, long-term tissue survival would ... damaged cells — including those with DNA damage or defective mitochondria. During apoptosis, cellular proteases and nucleases are ...

Damage to the genetic material of mitochondria—the mitochondrial DNA ... Such damage also speeds up the aging process. However, the cells are normally capable of identifying such damage and ...

After 50 years of mystery, researchers at the University of Cambridge have revealed how a molecular machine inside ...

Cugell, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, have discovered how mitochondria influence ...

The researchers who made the discovery propose that the independent mitochondria may be released by cells for signaling purposes, although more work is needed to validate that hypothesis. “It’s very ...

Mitochondria, the organelles in question, are best known as power packs—places where glucose molecules are disassembled to release the energy that drives metabolism. Boosting a failing cell’s ...

The mutated stem cells also contained turbocharged mitochondria, which gave the cells a strong competitive growth advantage. "This was really unexpected," Trowbridge said. "This gene was not ...

As we age, blood stem cells, the essential source of new blood cells in the body, can accumulate genetic mutations.

Scientists say they have discovered how a group of proteins linked to Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis act as 'guardians' of mitochondria, small organelles, or subunits, within a ...