Infusion of tiny mitochondria helps rejuvenate tissues, so researchers hope the technique could treat a variety of damaged ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea of mitochondria being little batteries with a built-in charger, about as ...

How the calcium ions get into the mitochondria "It is astonishing that such a simple ion can be so important for transmitting information," says Markus Schwarzländer. "We assume that the calcium ...

A Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine researcher has received a $1.925 million grant from the National Institutes of ...

New research shows mitochondria in neurons track energy stress to trigger sleep, revealing potential treatments.

Mitochondria have their own DNA, which consists of only 37 genes, compared with the thousands of genes in the spiraling chromosomes inside the cell nucleus. This ring of mitochondrial DNA, or ...

These tiny power generators cause a kind of metabolic overload in sleep-regulating neurons, the researchers suggest, which in ...

In animals, mitochondria are inherited maternally and the developing ova must be provided with an adequate supply of these important organelles, to guarantee the vitality of the cells. However, the ...

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 ...

How the calcium ions get into the mitochondria “It is astonishing that such a simple ion can be so important for transmitting information,” says Markus Schwarzländer. “We assume that the ...