Levels of nutrients and other criteria can tip the balance toward either fusion or division. In some specialized cell types, like neurons and sperm, energy needs are high and mitochondria are ...

Mitochondria, often seen as cellular powerhouses, play a surprising role in immune regulation. Researchers found that ...

Most animal, plant and fungal cells contain organelles called mitochondria. These descendants of a primordial bacterial ...

A new study explains how mitochondria act as “reservoirs” to store NAD for cells to use, which could help scientists come up ...

Most of us remember two things from high school biology: that mitochondria are the powerhouses of cells and that we inherit stable sets of chromosomes from our two parents. Both truisms are only ...

Scientists in the laboratory of Navdeep Chandel, Ph.D., the David W. Cugell, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of ...

A cell is like a factory ... However, too much Drp1 activity causes excessive division, leading to fragmented mitochondria with impaired function. We also observed behavior changes in rats ...

Scientists have detected the organelles outside of cells, apparently functioning perfectly well while drifting around the blood of healthy people, according to findings published recently (January 19) ...

Scientists in the laboratory of Navdeep Chandel, PhD, the David W. Cugell, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, have discovered how mitochondria influence the body ...