Researchers report an unexplained 71-terahertz vibration in living cells, mouse tissues and isolated mitochondria that ...

Visualizing the ultrastructure and dynamics of the inner mitochondrial membrane is a major challenge in mitochondrial research. Recently, researchers developed a new mitochondrial probe, HB mito ...

One of the biggest challenges in biology today is to explain the structure of cristae, the inner membranes of mitochondria. An explanation in this case is a set of principles to predict what form the ...

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark investigated how eight weeks of high-intensity interval training affect the structure of mitochondria—the parts of muscle cells that produce energy.

Mitochondrial genomes (MtDNA) comprise essential subunits of the mitochondrial respiratory chain; therefore, mutations in mtDNA can reduce cellular energy support and cause mitochondrial diseases.

Energy supply is a vital component of economic life. And the complex interplay between society and economy is jeopardized whenever core services or key industrial sectors are at risk of failing ...

As power plants and energy stores, mitochondria are essential components of almost all cells in plants, fungi and animals. Until now, it has been assumed that these functions underlie a static ...

Every cell in our body needs energy to work properly. This energy is mainly produced in tiny structures inside the cell called mitochondria, often described as the cell’s “powerhouses.” Mitochondria ...