A National Taiwan University study reveals how intracellular bacteria co-opt mitochondrial transporters to evade immune ...

Scientists have discovered that boosting the COX7RP protein enhances cellular energy efficiency and significantly extends ...

The tiny little powerhouses of our cells, the mitochondria, are unique among organelles because they carry their own tiny ...

Life on Earth started out as independent microscopic cells around 3.7 billion years ago. And so they persisted for aeons until one fateful day around 1.6-1.8 billion years ago when two ancient ...

Creating mini mitochondria factories helped recharge damaged cells in a dish, providing proof-of-concept work that could pave ...

Mitochondria arose through a fateful endosymbiosis more than 1.45 billion years ago. Many mitochondria make ATP without the help of oxygen. Aa Aa Aa What variety is there in mitochondria? Mitochondria ...

Researchers have developed experimental drugs that encourage the mitochondria in our cells to work a little harder and burn ...

The human brain is an organ that takes nearly from 20 to 25% of the energy the body needs. This high energy demand for neuronal functions depends on the transport and precise distribution of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jesse Pines is an expert in healthcare innovation and wellness. Microscopic view of mitochondria—often called the "powerhouses of ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was ...

Folate, or vitamin B9, is an essential nutrient. Without it, individual cells could not replicate their DNA or make copies of themselves, and consequently, the body would not be able to grow or ...

In 2016, sarcopenia was recognized as a disease and given an ICD-10-CM code (M62.84). 3,4 However, the originating causes of sarcopenia are largely unknown and have no clinical treatments at present, ...