Inside your cells, mitochondria keep you alive by turning food into usable energy. Researchers from the University of ...

Researchers have developed experimental drugs that encourage the mitochondria in our cells to work a little harder and burn ...

Scientists created safer weight loss chemicals that make cells burn more calories without dangerous side effects.

The team, led by researchers from the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, focussed on "mitochondrial uncouplers" - ...

Researchers have developed experimental drugs targeting mitochondria -- the energy powerhouse of a cell -- to work harder and ...

Diseases that affect mitochondria -- specialized compartments within cells that contain their own DNA and convert the food we eat into energy needed to sustain life -- typically interfere with ...

Uncoupling proteins (UCPs) are molecules that usually generate heat in the mitochondria of brown adipose tissue, but their function in other tissues remains unclear. In 3 January Nature, Karim Echtay ...

In a set of identical twins, investigators led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Children's Hospital Philadelphia (CHOP) have identified a mitochondrial disease not previously ...

In a set of identical twins, investigators have discovered a disease that affects the mitochondria, or the specialized compartments within cells that produce energy Unlike in other mitochondrial ...