Due to their similarities to bacteria, mitochondria can actually trigger severe illness in humans. How can organelles inside our bodies suddenly become a threat? What evidence did Margulis use to ...

Most of us remember two things from high school biology: that mitochondria are the powerhouses of cells and that we inherit stable sets of chromosomes from our two parents. Both truisms are only ...

This is especially challenging for organelles like mitochondria. To address this, the researchers present, for the first time, a technique for targeted protein degradation within the mitochondria ...