Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

Kennedy Jr.’s warning about mitochondria slipped in between the anti-vaccine junk science and the excoriation of pharmaceutical drugs as “the No. 3 killer in our country.” He was speaking in 2023 to ...

It has been known for several years that abnormal chromosome numbers lead to protein imbalances in the affected cells.

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell. In the 1960s British biochemists Peter Mitchell and Jennifer Moyle discovered how electrons derived ...

University of Western Australia research reveals how cells convert physical exercise forces into energy production responses.

Mitochondrial abnormalities, or problems in cells' powerhouses, contribute to nerve cell death linked to motor control in MS, ...

Mitochondria are not just the powerhouses of the cell – they are the immune system’s watchtowers, alert to even the faintest metabolic signals of bacterial invaders. As researchers’ understanding of ...

A new antibody treatment prevents cholesterol buildup in heart mitochondria and restores energy production, offering hope for ...

Mitochondria made cells social, binding them in a contract whereby the survival of each cell depends on every other one, and thus made us possible. On supporting science journalism ...