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

Mitochondria play a central role in energy metabolism and overall health. In obesity and its comorbidities, mitochondrial ...

For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...

Vitamin D supplements may help prevent the loss of telomeres, DNA sequences that shrink with aging, a large study shows. But ...

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

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

Clues are emerging about the ghostly clan that settled eastern Asia and left a genetic legacy in people today.

By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia ...

Estrogen-related receptors (ERRs) regulate muscle mitochondria in mice, revealing a new potential drug targets for metabolic ...

Researchers confirm and explore the role of estrogen-related receptors in regulating energy production in muscle cells during exercise. The findings indicate that developing a drug to boost ...

The number of mitochondrial DNA copies may drop as MS progresses, suggesting a possible biomarker for disease progression, a ...

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) editing has emerged as a revolutionary approach in the fight against neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs).