NAD, a vital molecule for cellular energy and DNA repair, plays a central role in aging and diseases like cancer and ...

Powerhouse of the Cell It is the mitochondrion, a small body which appears to play a central role in the oxidation of foodstuff. Its structure, as revealed by the electron microscope, mirrors its ...

Following decades of being called “the powerhouse of the cell,” researchers recently proposed a new description that reflects the multifaceted roles of mitochondria. Danielle is an Assistant Editor at ...

Hola, mis amigos de la ciencia! This week, researchers reported that hominins strode bipedally across Europe 500,000 years ...

Mitochondria are commonly found as extended ... ‘True’ dynamin functions in animal cells at the neck of coated membrane ‘pits’ in the scission step that yields coated vesicles 15.

A new study explains how mitochondria act as “reservoirs” to store NAD for cells to use, which could help scientists come up with NAD-boosting therapies to combat aging and age-related diseases.

Most of us remember two things from high school biology: that mitochondria are the powerhouses of cells and that we inherit stable sets of chromosomes from our two parents. Both truisms are only ...

Mitochondria organelles came from primordial bacterial endosymbionts and still preserve distinct genes for important functions like making ATP. To speed the emerging therapeutic research into the ...

Mitochondria in intact cells can transiently accumulate calcium during cell stimulation. The heterogeneity of the response, the extremely high calcium concentrations reached in the mitochondrial ...

Scientists in the laboratory of Navdeep Chandel, PhD, the David W. Cugell, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, have discovered how mitochondria influence the body ...

Similarly, in the cell model of the person with mutations ... the entire process that makes mitochondria our powerhouse is disrupted," says first author Nanami Senoo, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow ...

The Bround Lab studies mitochondrial biology with an emphasis on heart and skeletal muscle physiology and disease. Mitochondria are important organelles which serve as the powerhouse and molecular ...