Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

People often refer to mitochondria as the powerhouses of the cell. Their main function is to generate the energy necessary to power cells, but they are also involved in cell signaling and death.

There’s unexpected movement in the world of cell biology — specifically, with the energy factories known as mitochondria. Ever since they were discovered in the mid-nineteenth century ...

They turn the food we eat into the energy our cells can use. But when stress hijacks the process they use to maintain their ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within each cell and serve as “powerhouses,” combining oxygen and food to ...

For over a decade, our lab has been investigating the role that mitochondria – the powerhouses that fuel cells – play in ...

The energy needed to appropriately function is limited based on the cell’s mitochondria – an organelle responsible for generating energy for cell activity. As a result, the lack of T cell antitumor ...

Unlike actual power plants, which are set in size and location, mitochondria are rather dynamic. They constantly shift in size, number and location, traveling between many different parts of the cells ...