“This is an early but exciting step toward recharging aging tissues using their own biological machinery,” Gaharwar says in ...

Many of us remember from high school biology class that mitochondria are the cell’s “power plants.” These small kidney-bean-shaped structures are what convert nutrients from food into ATP — the cell’s ...

Our new tool allows us to study how changes in mitochondrial abundance and the mitochondrial genome affect cells and organisms." Jun Wu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at UT ...

When our body fights an infection, the immune system must quickly activate defenses and trigger a beneficial inflammatory ...

Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move remain unclear. Research published in the Biophysical Journal shows that ...

Mitochondria play a crucial role in energy production. Changes in mitochondrial function is now widely recognized as a ...

Mitochondria are well known as energy suppliers, and powerhouses of cells, but they have other crucial functions as well. One of those functions is outcompeting pathogens for resources, according to ...

People are suddenly very concerned about the powerhouse of the cell.