Researchers have identified the mitochondrial calcium uniporter as a critical protein in the strengthening of synaptic ...

This is a colorized transmission electron micrograph of cellular mitochondria, which produce a small molecule called ATP. Inside cells, ATP serves as an energy source but released outside the cell ...

In addition to the nucleus, eukaryotic cells may contain several other types of organelles, which may include mitochondria ... can use high resolution electron microscopy to take a snapshot ...

Inner membranes of live mitochondria under a STED microscope ... Sample preparation is much easier for an optical microscope than a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), requiring about an ...

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is actively removed during spermatogenesis in a conserved process that enforces the uniparental ...

The discovery of its two-dimensional structure was possible thanks to the invention of the electron microscope ... is comparable in size to the mitochondrial DNA of other eukaryotic cells ...

New research at the University of Alberta may make it easier to diagnose serious diseases that disrupt the body's energy ...

However, when they become dysfunctional, damaged, or old, mitochondria can turn into pro-death organelles, which produce reactive oxygen species that damage the cell’s proteins and DNA ... levels and ...

Mitochondria power eukaryotic cells to carry out their ... As part of their work to characterize these mini energy machines in placentas, the team uploaded electron microscopy images of the organ and ...