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 ...

Also, in sperm cells, the mitochondria are spiraled in the midpiece and provide energy for tail motion. Although most of our DNA is kept in the nucleus of each cell, mitochondria have their own ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Additionally, DAAO-produced hydrogen peroxide at the mitochondria membrane did not induce cell cycle arrest, whereas hydrogen peroxide produced by DAAO in the nucleus paused the cell cycle. While ...

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 ...