Tag: mitochondria

Your brain burns 20 percent of your body’s energy and now we know exactly where it goes.

This could open up new avenues for treating depression and other conditions.

Mitochondrial DNA is inherited only from the mother, and there's a lot we can learn starting from this basic fact.

Researchers have shown that an essential protein involved in Alzheimer’s causes cells to overheat, which may explain how the disease ...

Structures providing energy to cells have a crucial role in vision.

Cellular respiration allows cells to harvest ATP from glucose. It has three steps called glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and the ...

But will they claim copyright?

"We basically short-circuited the stored energy."

A discovery that's set to rewrite textbooks on biology.

When power runs low, neurons start going haywire.

Maybe other drugs have similar effects.

It changes their genes.

We're living in the future.

A team led by Professor Jun-Ichi Hayashi from the University of Tsukuba in Japan, known as the white lion to ...

A new milestone study found that mitochondria - the energy factories in animal and plant cells - were initially very similar ...

The recent discovery of DNA of a 400,000-year-old human thigh bone could provide valuable insight into the evolution of humans; researchers ...