Many of us remember from high school biology class that mitochondria are the cell's "power plants." These small kidney-bean-shaped structures are what convert nutrients from food into ATP—the cell's ...
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Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was ...
Mitochondria arose through a fateful endosymbiosis more than 1.45 billion years ago. Many mitochondria make ATP without the help of oxygen. Aa Aa Aa What variety is there in mitochondria? Mitochondria ...
Neutrophils (yellow) eject a NET (green) to ensnare bacteria (purple). Other cells, such as red blood cells (orange), may also get trapped. CHDENK/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Research from my ...
Scientists have discovered how the amino acid leucine boosts the body’s energy production by protecting key mitochondrial ...
You may know the humble mitochondrion as the ‘powerhouse of the cell,’ a kidney bean-shaped organelle which provides our cells with the energy (in the form of ATP) to perform biochemistry, respond to ...
AMHERST, Mass. – The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced that it will support the efforts of a collaborative group of researchers, led by Elizabeth Vierling, Distinguished Professor ...
Researchers uncovered how fatty molecules called ceramides trigger acute kidney injury by damaging the mitochondria that ...
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