For 1.5 billion years, the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes have been coevolving. Over this time, the mitochondrial genome became reduced, retaining only 37 genes in most animal species, and growing ...

Researchers discover that insect sex systems influence the speed of mitochondrial evolution, impacting biodiversity tracking ...

Mitochondria are known as the body’s “energy factories,” and their function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set of complexes called the oxidative phosphorylation (OxPhos) system ...

Model for mitochondrial homeostasis mediated by PtoRFL30 during wood formation in poplar. During wood formation, nuclear-encoded protein PtoRFL30 targets mitochondria, and affects mitochondrial ...

Yeast and humans might look pretty different, but the similarities of their mitochondria make yeast a good model organism to study human mitochondrial diseases. In an Advanced Online Publication in ...

Synaptic transmission is an energy hog. It requires neurons to tap ATP reserves to respond to incoming signals. How do they pull this off, thousands to millions of times per day? A new study ...

Huge leaps have been made, especially over the past few years, in understanding how coronaviruses wreak havoc on our cells. However, the mechanism that SARS-CoV-2 uses to create such negative, ...

This week there was news on Long COVID in two very different directions: emergence of strong data to support mitochondrial dysfunction as the basis for the condition in some people, and learning how ...

Sometimes, doing good science requires a little bit of luck, a lot of patience, and stepping outside your comfort zone. Such was the case for research highlighted in a recent publication from the ...