“This is an early but exciting step toward recharging aging tissues using their own biological machinery,” Gaharwar says in ...

Mitochondria are well known as energy suppliers, and powerhouses of cells, but they have other crucial functions as well. One of those functions is outcompeting pathogens for resources, according to ...

Tiny structures inside your cells keep your body alive by turning food into fuel. These structures, called mitochondria, power every heartbeat, thought, and movement. When they fail, organs that need ...

When war breaks out, power plants are attacked first along with military facilities like air defense networks. The same thing happens in the war inside the human body. Cancer cells have been found to ...

Mitochondria release segments of mitochondrial DNA that can travel through pores of the nucleus and integrate into a cell's chromosomes (where the insertions are called NUMTs, for nuclear ...

Scientists have found DNA in the nucleus of brain cells, where it shouldn’t be. Bits of genes that typically reside in mitochondria insert themselves at unexpectedly high rates into brain cells’ ...

Scientists are learning how to revive faltering human cells by loading them with fresh power plants, effectively repairing and recharging tissues that had started to fail. Instead of editing DNA or ...