Kennedy Jr.’s warning about mitochondria slipped in between the anti-vaccine junk science and the excoriation of pharmaceutical drugs as “the No. 3 killer in our country.” He was speaking in 2023 to ...

Mitochondria depend on a newly discovered recycling mechanism identified by scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). Mitochondria are tiny structures inside of cells that carry out ...

Mitochondria can look terribly odd when sick. In people with mtDNA defects that cause rare mitochondrial diseases, such as the person in whose mitochondria we first saw nanotunnels, ...

Clinicians have long known that patients with mitochondrial diseases get sick more often than other people—and often develop more severe, sometimes deadly, infections from viruses and bacteria.

Researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) report that mitochondria depend on a newly discovered recycling mechanism. Their research demonstrates mitochondria can recycle a localized ...

The Mitochondrial View of Stress. The mitochondria are what connect mind and body, translating social and psychological experiences into emotional responses—positive and negative—and ...

Researchers have discovered how “leaky” mitochondria – the powerhouses of our cells – can drive harmful inflammation responsible for diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.Scientists may be ...

Mitochondria turn the food we eat into the energy our cells can use. ... When healthy mitochondria do it to a sick cell, they can help it heal." Seventeen years ago, ...

Cells with ‘sick’ mitochondria are culled out or, as we cell biologists say, negatively selected.” As this is highly relevant for patients with mitochondrial disease, the scientists now want to do ...

I n yet another example of Covid’s seemingly limitless reach into our bodies, new research maps out how the SARS-CoV-2 virus disrupts mitochondria, the power plants in all our cells. The extent ...

Mitochondria, the so-called “powerhouse of the cell,” depend on a newly discovered recycling mechanism identified by scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids).

Summary: Scientists have discovered that T cells in the immune system are particularly affected by genetic disturbances in their mitochondria. Patients with Pearson syndrome have mitochondrial genome ...