Serious damage to short-term kidney function—known as acute kidney injury, or AKI—can be fatal and also increase the risk of irreversible chronic kidney disease. It can be triggered by stressors ...

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

Rooted in malfunctions in the tiny power plants that energize our cells, mitochondrial disorders are notoriously complex and variable, with few effective treatments. Now, novel findings in microscopic ...

For years, researchers have watched the tiny power plants inside brain cells falter in Parkinson’s disease and wondered what came first. Did those damaged mitochondria trigger the illness, or did they ...

The bean-shaped organelles are now being recognized for their part in immune signaling, stress responses, and neural functioning.

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

Longevity science has spent decades chasing single molecules that might slow aging, but most candidates have delivered modest ...

It’s one of the basic tenets of biology: We get our DNA from our mom and our dad. But one notable exception has perplexed scientists for decades: Most animals, including humans, inherit the DNA inside ...

Prince Frederik of Luxembourg died from a genetic disease called PolG, but experts hope his passing could bring more awareness to the rare condition that impacted his life. Prince Frederik, 22, died ...