Scientists are seeking permission to generate human embryonic ... Adult somatic cells typically contain from a few hundred to several thousand mitochondria and this reflects their demands for ...

These mitochondria are called hydrogenosomes and allow the cell to gain about 4 mol of ATP ... Mitosomes were discovered in the human intestinal parasite Entamoeba histolytica in 1999, and were ...

Whether cells in the human body survive or die under stress depends, among other things, on their mitochondria. Scientists at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Freiburg have now shown that ...