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 ...

Membrane lipids may have helped shape the evolution of proteins in the respiratory complexes of mitochondria, a team of cell biologists at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in ...

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

It wasn’t just today’s bodies that told the story. Ancient DNA backed it up. The researchers traced the variant through time.

Scientists have uncovered a critical role for rapid DNA repair in maintaining genome stability. A new study reveals that ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate.

They also illustrated how AI can help to and understand the evolution of dual-targeting sequences for both the mitochondria and chloroplasts, highlighting the breadth of scientific questions that ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had " successfully restored … the dire ...