Mitchondria are in a constant state of fusion and division inside the cell. Learn how this organelle is not just a passively floating ovoid structure. In 1931, Dorothea Smith observed variable ...

Mitochondrial diseases are often caused by mutations in enzymes required for the expression of the second genome in our cells, the mitochondrial DNA. The genes encoded in the mtDNA are strictly ...

Drug-induced mitochondrial dysfunction has been linked to compound attrition, organ toxicity, black-box warnings and market withdrawals, therefore it is important to identify mitochondrial toxicity ...

Mitochondrial fusion grants new neurons a competitive advantage Adult neurogenesis takes place in the hippocampus, a brain ...

Prince Frederik of Luxembourg has died at the age of 22 from POLG mitochondrial disease, a rare genetic disorder that he was born with, his family announced. Frederik de Nassau died in Paris on ...