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

Mitochondria are crucial organelles for cellular homeostasis, regulating processes such as ATP production, reactive oxygen species (ROS) management and Ca2+ signaling.

"Our air conditioners have been controlling temperature and humidity, but maybe the air conditioners of tomorrow will also ...

We recently showed that the peptide neurotensin (NT) is increased in autistic children. We now show that NT induces release of extracellular mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) that could act as "autoimmune ...

Emerging evidence suggests that abnormalities in mitochondria-lysosome contact sites (MLCSs) contribute to neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, Charcot–Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, ...

Mitochondria are more than the powerhouses of the cell, they regulate a plethora of cellular processes such as apoptosis, metabolism and signaling. This exciting collection highlights the most recent ...

The influx of child patients suffering from pneumonia, winter diarrhoea and other cold-related diseases has been straining hospitals. The pneumonia ward at Dhaka Shishu Hospital and Institute was ...

“Historically, stones were pretty much a disease of white, middle-aged men, but that’s changed dramatically over the last 30 years,” said Gregory E. Tasian, a pediatric urologist at Children ...

Hundreds of children developed the disease in France in the last nine years (Picture: Shutterstock/Natchar Lai) A rare Renaissance-era condition known as ‘Sailor’s disease’ is making a ...

Karan found that when the mitochondria were dysfunctional, as occurs in people with mitochondrial diseases (and, to lesser extent, in those with diabetes and other metabolic disorders), cells in ...