Bits of DNA from mitochondria can skip surprisingly fast into our genome and may reduce lifespan M ost of us remember two ...

In an intriguing revelation from recent research, mitochondria have been shown not only to power the cell but also to ...

Mitochondria are commonly found as extended reticular webs whose overall morphology depends on frequent fission and fusion of mitochondrial tubules. These processes require distinct GTP-binding ...

An unexpected intracellular transport route between mitochondria and peroxisomes has been identified by Heidi McBride and co-workers. Reporting in Current Biology, they describe and characterize ...

How do mitochondria choose which of these two opposing paths to take? "That was the question we set out to answer," says ...

A comparison can be used to draw a physical relationship between two or more objects. For instance, the length of the leaf cell above is ten times the diameter of a red blood cell. If you increase ...

The "power plants" of living cells, the mitochondria, probably evolved through endosymbiosis: A bacterium migrated into a primordial cell and eventually developed into an organelle that provides the ...

By explaining how the egg handles the destruction of such enormous constructs as the fruit fly's paternal mitochondria, the study might open a new research direction in cellular biology.

Mitochondria are vital to energy production in cells and so play a key role in fueling cancer growth. However, how ...

During his postdoctoral training at York University (Advisor: David A. Hood, Ph.D.) and NIH (Advisor: Brian Glancy, Ph.D.), he developed his expertise in the field of muscle physiology with a focus on ...

In this article, Thermo Scientific Visualization Data Solutions discusses how a study using Amira software can help explain why we lose muscle mass as we age.