You don’t have to be a numismatist to enjoy looking at coins under a microscope. An enthusiast will be able to find pockets ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

Picture a living cell as if it were a city. If you were the urban planner for this (very little, very alive) city, one of the ...

The new molecule targets a killer protein called BAX which kills cells by damaging mitochondria, the powerhouse of cells. Lead author and Dewson Lab researcher Kaiming Li said: "For the first time ...

"We disrupt the membrane, so mitochondria cannot work functionally to produce energy or work as a signaling hub. This causes programmed cell death followed by DNA damage—our investigations ...