Most animal, plant and fungal cells contain organelles called mitochondria. These descendants of a primordial bacterial ...

Aligning therapies with the biologic clock may improve efficacy, as macrophage activity peaks early in the morning, worsening inflammatory disease symptoms.

The malfunctioning mitochondria seem to poison the immune cells, explains Yosuke Togashi, a pulmonary physician and ...

These mitochondria give the tissue its distinctive dark color and unique metabolic properties. While babies are born with significant amounts of brown fat to help regulate their body temperature, ...

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

The aim was to see whether a human could ... the body’s energy currency,” explain the experts at W-Wellness, a health concierge and nutrition consultancy. “Mitochondria play a central ...

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Center for Natural and Human Sciences, Federal University of ABC, 09210-180 São Paulo, SP, Brazil ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in a gathering called the Human Be-In. Timothy Leary advised ...

Now, one theorist warns that the human civilization of 8.2 billion people is at a critical junction: teetering between what he forecasts will be authoritarian collapse and superabundance.

Scientists now know that in addition to storing energy, body ... by the mitochondrial protein MCJ. The researchers first identified what they described as reduced MCJ expression in human ...