While iron and calcium are the metals that get the most attention, zinc is also important for human health and function.

Mice whose MTCH2 proteins were silenced, or deleted, developed increased athletic capacity – they grew more muscle fibers, ...

How well our brain functions depends heavily on the performance of our nerve cells. That is why they are regularly checked for their proper function -- defective cell components are marked, disposed ...

A newly identified mutation helps super-sleepers get by on just four to six hours of shut-eye per night, while the rest of us ...

Following on from a remarkable study in mice, scientists have now confirmed that silencing a certain protein in muscle tissue ...

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Researchers have elucidated the mode of action of a promising inhibitor of a Parkinson's-associated mitochondrial protein.

Just 48 short years ago, movie director George Lucas used the phrase "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" as the ...

In new research published in Nature, scientists have produced the first comprehensive atlas of the tiny energy producers in ...

Finally, stem cell mitochondria, which are metabolically dormant until differentiation, tend to have a very loose cristae structure, as well as a spherical morphology. (22,46,47) These change into ...

About 25% of all human proteins are estimated ... Some of the proteins are made in the cell’s cytoplasm and some inside the mitochondria. They find their way to the mitochondrial inner membrane ...