Mitochondria are well known as the energy producers of cells, but they have other crucial functions as well. One of those ...

You've heard that mitochondria are the "powerhouse of the cell." Now get ready for "mitochondria are the infantry of the cell ...

Our cells produce a variety of proteins, each with a specific role that, in many cases, means that they need to be in a ...

Chronic infections impact a substantial portion of the global population, presenting ongoing challenges to health care ...

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 ...

Rockefeller researchers have discovered that the antioxidant glutathione, acting within mitochondria, plays a crucial role in allowing breast tumors to spread to the lung. Mitochondria are best known ...

Many of us remember from high school biology class that mitochondria are the cell's "power plants." These small kidney-bean-shaped structures are what convert nutrients from food into ATP—the ...

UCLA research shows that mitochondria detect invading pathogen Toxoplasma gondii and ramp up competition for vitamin B9, also ...

Cancer cells provide healthy neighboring cells with additional mitochondria to put them to work. This has been demonstrated by researchers at ETH Zurich in a new study. In this way, cancer is ...

NASA proposes to pioneer a radically new approach to mitigating radiation-induced cell damage in astronauts by transplanting ...