Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat ...

Conversely, a team at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, used rats to show that transplanted mitochondria stop damaged ...

Scientists say they have discovered how a group of proteins linked to Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis act as 'guardians' of mitochondria, small organelles, or subunits, within a ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have identified a small molecule, PZL-A, that restores function in the defective ...

A medical breakthrough could result in the first treatment for rare but serious diseases in which genetic defects disrupt cellular energy production. Researchers have identified a molecule that helps ...

New research adds to the understanding of how mitochondria function during spermatogenesis, the process by which sperm cells ...

A medical breakthrough could result in the first treatment for rare but serious diseases in which genetic defects disrupt ...

Scientists created a stem cell-based method to produce high-quality mitochondria at scale, enabling effective treatments for ...

Research led by Children's Hospital of Fudan University in China has found that a gene called pancreatic progenitor cell ...

Precious metals are not merely ornaments; they are also important components of pharmaceuticals, like the antitumor drug ...

In Parkinson’s disease (PD), damaged mitochondria build up in the dopaminergic system of the substantia nigra, partly due to impaired mitochondrial autophagy (mitophagy) and autophagosome accumulation ...