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 an article published in the journal Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Alicia Kowaltowski, full professor at the University of São Paulo's Institute of Chemistry (IQ-USP) in Brazil, advocates the ...
Researchers have identified the mitochondrial calcium uniporter as a critical protein in the strengthening of synaptic ...
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 ...
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 ...
Qinghua Zhou of the University of Colorado and colleagues examined the C. elegans cells using electron microscopy and tomography, finding that the paternal mitochondria started to self-destruct even ...
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 ...
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 ...