Due to their similarities to bacteria, mitochondria can actually trigger severe illness in humans. How can organelles inside our bodies suddenly become a threat? What evidence did Margulis use to ...

As a result, ROS from overactive mitochondria are frequently cited as a source of DNA damage. Despite this longstanding belief, few studies have explicitly demonstrated this linkage. Tobias Dansen, a ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Cells possess a specialized recycling system to repair damaged mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is crucial for preventing diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer ...

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Scientists led by a team at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, have worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria—the ...

The study was published under the title "Metabolic rewiring caused by mitochondrial dysfunction promotes mTORC1-dependent skeletal aging" in Science Advances. The researchers undertook a specific ...

Mitochondria and chloroplasts likely evolved from engulfed prokaryotes that once lived as independent organisms. At some point, a eukaryotic cell engulfed an aerobic prokaryote, which then formed ...

Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced by cellular organelles called mitochondria. However, surprisingly ...

And, for one type of organelle, that principle is now being tested in practice. Mitochondria, the organelles in question, are best known as power packs—places where glucose molecules are ...

Researchers have identified a molecule that helps more mitochondria function properly. A medical breakthrough could result in the first treatment for rare but serious diseases in which genetic ...