The Life Sciences Research Facility and the Nano Research Facility are home to the university’s Imaging and Flow Cytometry ...

Researchers will explore a promising approach for treating degenerative diseases by replacing damaged cells with new ones and will focus on genetically engineering replacement cells from embryonic ...

The diagram below shows the same plant cell, as viewed with the light microscope, and with the transmission electron microscope ... Nucleus Contains DNA which carries the genetic code for making ...

In an article published in the journal Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Alicia Kowaltowski, full professor at the University ...

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

Virginia Tech neuroscientists have uncovered a mitochondrial process that supports the brain cells critical for learning, ...

Researchers have identified a unique mitochondrial process in CA2 neurons that supports learning, memory, and social ...

Mitochondria contain the mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC), or a series of protein complexes in which electrons pass through and produce ATP, or energy, for the cell. Mitochondrial ETC ...

Now, researchers have identified the transfer of mitochondria with mutated DNA from cancer cells to immune cells as a key mechanism of immune evasion and resistance to immunotherapy. Targeting ...

A research collaboration has found that besides regulating the fusion of mitochondria, Mitofusin 2 also ensures protein quality control. This discovery could open up new routes to treating ...