Most animal, plant and fungal cells contain organelles called mitochondria. These descendants of a primordial bacterial ...

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 ...

Researchers revealed mitochondria's role in immune regulation through IL-10 production, controlled by mitochondrial complex ...

The new discovery reveals how genetic material can escape from our cellular batteries, known as mitochondria, and prompt the body to launch a damaging immune response. By developing therapies to ...

had more mitochondrial DNA circulating in the cerebrospinal fluid with deletions—that is, with losses of some fragment of genetic material—than the control group. "However, the most relevant ...