A child with a rare genetic disease that affects mitochondria is the first person to receive a new experimental treatment for ...

Molecules that build coenzyme Q10, vital for mitochondrial function, healed mice and a patient with an ultra-rare and lethal ...

In what experts are calling a “dream come true,” scientists used a recent biochemical discovery to help an 8-year-old boy ...

The value of a recent biochemical discovery can be seen in the case of an 8-year-old boy who was playing typical sports in ...

Rather than being born with a fixed fraction of mitochondria-containing, endurance-oriented muscle fibers (“slow twitch, or ...

By using a genetic technique developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center that forces cells to rid themselves of mitochondria, ...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

To make this move, mitochondria in the central portion of the cell [known as the soma] break off to make new mitochondria, using processes called mitochondrial fission and biogenesis. These activities ...

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

University of Western Australia research reveals how cells convert physical exercise forces into energy production responses.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that is thought to impact about 2.3 million people around the ...