Following on from a remarkable study in mice, scientists have now confirmed that silencing a certain protein in muscle tissue ...

Mitochondrial diseases affect approximately 1 in 5,000 people worldwide, causing debilitating symptoms ranging from muscle ...

Innovative weight-loss drugs burst onto the scene about 10 years ago, promising a healthier, slimmer world. The downside, ...

Scientists found a compound that appears to counter common mutations behind POLG-related diseases, rare conditions that harm ...

Nowadays, the prevalence of sedentary lifestyles and high-caloric diets leads to an imbalance between energy intake and ...

The mitochondrion plays critical roles in cellular function, making it a prime organelle to target for fundamental studies, ...

Researchers from the Laboratory of Systems Biology, Department of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia, recently found that the extent of AMPK activation is not the same ...

Calcium transport into and out of mitochondria ... and cells die. This is most apparent in the heart, where calcium overload contributes to the permanent loss of heart muscle cells during ...