Mitochondria fuel your muscles, immune system and cellular repair – and their performance affects everything from fitness to ...

Stress definitely leads to anxiety just like isolation makes way for depression.Psychological and social experiences shape ...

Chronic stress and social isolation are frequently cited as precursors to physical illness, yet the biological machinery ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was ...

A stressful year leads to anxiety. Lasting isolation gives way to depression. An old trauma nags until it becomes paralyzing.

Creating mini mitochondria factories helped recharge damaged cells in a dish, providing proof-of-concept work that could pave ...

Many of us remember from high school biology class that mitochondria are the cell’s “power plants.” These small kidney-bean-shaped structures are what convert nutrients from food into ATP — the cell’s ...

A small tweak to mitochondrial energy production led to big gains in health and longevity. Mice engineered to boost a protein that helps mitochondria work more efficiently lived longer and showed ...

Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move ...

In a small study, sprint interval exercise helped to “clean-up and rebuild” cells better than steady-state moderate-intensity ...