In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

However, cholesterol is not present in bacterial membranes or mitochondrial membranes. Also, cholesterol helps regulate the stiffness of membranes, while other less prominent lipids play roles in ...

Mitochondria turn the food we eat into the energy our cells can use. But when stress hijacks the process they use to maintain ...

To unveil these mysterious proteins, Rangaraju and her team used hippocampal cell cultures expressing an engineered version of the ascorbate peroxidase apurinic/apyrimidinic endodeoxyribonuclease 2 ...

2 The team fused DAAO to either a nucleosome protein or a mitochondrial membrane protein to study the effects of hydrogen peroxide produced at these specific locations. The team hypothesized that ...

"Until a few years ago, we were sure that mitochondria produced ATP via oxidative phosphorylation in the intermembrane space, ...

Researchers have discovered how cholesterol can disrupt the internal functioning of the heart by accumulating in the ...

New research challenges the view that proteins are the only key to evolution, highlighting the importance of lipids.