DNA inside energy-producing organelles called mitochondria is destroyed in a dad’s sperm shortly after it fertilizes an egg, researchers report online June 23 in Science. A protein called CPS-6 ...

Unlike actual power plants, which are set in size and location, mitochondria are rather dynamic. They constantly shift in size, number and location, traveling between many different parts of the ...

One parasite that feeds on algae is so voracious that it even stole its own mitochondria’s DNA. Mitochondria — the energy-generating parts of cells — of the parasitic plankton Amoebophyra ...