Mitochondria arose through a fateful endosymbiosis more than 1.45 billion years ago. Many mitochondria make ATP without the help of oxygen. Aa Aa Aa What variety is there in mitochondria?

One of the most momentous events in the history of life involved endosymbiosis—a process by which one organism engulfed ...

Scientists found molecular evidence supporting the idea that chloroplasts originated as energy-generating organelles and only later evolved to support carbon assimilation in plant cells.

In 2021, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, reported an astonishing new form ...

A defining feature of the eukaryotic cell is compartmentalised genomes with distinct modes of expression, transmission, and evolution. Mitochondria possess two dynamic membranes that envelop a ...

Intracellular endosymbionts that originally descended from free-living prokaryotes have been important in the evolution of eukaryotes by giving rise to two cytoplasmic organelles. Mitochondria ...

Endosymbiosis, the process by which one organism engulfed another and integrated its DNA and functions into itself rather ...

New research reveals the pivotal role of a mitochondrion-localized protein, PtoRFL30, in the wood formation of poplar trees.

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers from the United States of America investigated how cells separate competing metabolic pathways within mitochondria, namely oxidative ...