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Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...
Mitochondria are often called the powerhouses of the cell. We explain how they got this title, and outline other important roles that they carry out. Medical News Today ...
Cardiac muscle cells also contain mitochondria, which many people call the powerhouses of the cells. ... which causes the cell to shrink. The cell uses ATP to power this contraction.
Mitochondria are sausage-shaped structures, or organelles, floating inside cells that generate a chemical called adenosine triphosphate (or ATP) used as fuel for all our metabolic processes.
Researchers at Tohoku University have discovered that an oral drug called MA-5 can improve both heart and muscle problems in ...
Arguably the most important is that mitochondria generate energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate [ATP], the main energy source in living cells. When mitochondria are damaged, such as in brain ...
The presence of numerous mitochondria, such as the ones colored purple in this transmission electron micrograph of a human heart muscle cell, reflects the large energy demands of the heart.
University of South Alabama researchers report that neurons can transfer mitochondria directly to cancer cells, enhancing ...
Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell. In the 1960s British biochemists Peter Mitchell and Jennifer Moyle discovered how electrons derived ...