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

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

New research published in Nature Communications into hidden mutations in mitochondrial DNA has uncovered how high mutational ...

About 100,000 mitochondria are estimated to be present ... cytoplasm that are required for reprogramming the somatic cell nucleus. Of course, before we can determine whether single or cross ...

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

The human genome is broadly classified into the genome residing in the cell nucleus (nuclear DNA) and the genome residing in ...

These cellular life forms lack membrane-bound organelles. Those organelles, which include the nucleus and the mitochondria, are found in a more recently evolved type of cell called eukaryotes. Plants ...

Mitochondria do far more than produce energy—they also compress and transmit information about the state of a cell. And our chromosomes, although safely ensconced within the cell’s nucleus ...

Now a study shows that mitochondria are possibly even stranger than we thought. Mitochondria in our brain cells frequently fling their DNA into the nucleus, the study found, where the DNA becomes ...

Animal and plant cells differ and they have similarities. Nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm and mitochondria are four cell components that are found in both animal and plant cells. All life on ...

Scientists have found DNA in the nucleus of brain cells, where it shouldn’t be. Bits of genes that typically reside in mitochondria insert themselves at unexpectedly high rates into brain cells ...

Mitochondria in our brain cells frequently fling their DNA into the nucleus, the study found, where the DNA becomes integrated into the cells' chromosomes. And these insertions may be causing harm ...