Cancer cells can poison attacking immune cells by filling them with defective mitochondria ― dampening the body’s defensive forces and helping the tumour to evade eradication 1. These findings ...

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 ...

1,3 In recent years, mitochondrial dysfunction has become a possible mechanism that could explain the development of sarcopenia. Transformations in mitochondria function are seen before the loss ...

Researchers uncovered a mechanism called excitation-mitochondrial DNA transcription coupling (E-TCmito) linking neuronal activity to mitochondrial DNA transcription, crucial for maintaining brain ...

1 Guangxi Zhuang and Yao Ethnic Medicine Key Laboratory, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China 2 Nutrition and Bromatology Group, Analytical Chemistry and Food Science, Instituto de ...

The tripeptide, γ-glutamyl-cysteinyl glycine, the foremost abundant low relative molecular mass thiol within the cell, has been found in large quantities in every cell compartment: cytosol, ...

The tissue was then agitated in DMEM containing calcium and magnesium for 30 s to separate the crypts from the lamina propria mucosa and fibrous stroma. A bifurcating crypt was observed, photographed ...