BACKGROUND: Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is substantially influenced by genetic factors. Sarcomere function is intricately associated with other organelles, particularly the reciprocal regulation ...

Researchers have identified a small molecule that can reverse oxidative damage to mitochondria, helping to address many human ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a massive tokamak nuclear fusion reactor. Developed over 40 years in collaboration ...

The process is much different than fission, the nuclear reaction that powers current nuclear reactors and the atomic bomb. Fusion is a carbon-free process that relies on heated plasma, a gas made ...

But the consequences could be huge. Fusion is a process that merges atoms together, and releases more energy than fission (which splits atoms apart). Fission is used by today's nuclear power ...

A single fusion reactor will need hundreds of grams to one kilogram (2.2 lbs.) of tritium a day to operate. Right now, conventional nuclear reactors produce tritium as a byproduct of fission ...

Fusion is the opposite of the fission process that powers today’s nuclear plants. Atoms don’t split; they weld together. The basic fuel isn’t uranium, but hydrogen extracted from seawater.

They found that mitochondrial fusion and fission enable cells to balance competing metabolic demands by creating two specialized mitochondrial subpopulations: one subset containing P5CS (pyrroline ...

Scientists have known for decades that mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles. They go through fusion and fission events, in which individual mitochondria join together and then split apart ...