The pig’s heart was graying rapidly, so McCully decided to try it. He loaded a syringe with the extracted mitochondria and ...

An international research team has uncovered a surprising way compartments within cells work together to defend themselves ...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

University of South Alabama researchers report that neurons can transfer mitochondria directly to cancer cells, enhancing ...

An international team led by researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, ...

Mitochondria are cell organelles surrounded by a double membrane. In addition to numerous essential functions in the ...

By using a genetic technique developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center that forces cells to rid themselves of mitochondria, ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

Neurons often receive organelles called mitochondria from other cells. It emerges that neurons donate mitochondria that support cancer-cell spread.

Cancer cells get power boost by stealing mitochondria from nerves The theft probably helps the cells to spread around the body, and preventing it could provide a path to treatment, researchers say.