Due to their similarities to bacteria, mitochondria can actually trigger severe illness in humans. How can organelles inside our bodies suddenly become a threat? What evidence did Margulis use to ...

The authors note that there are only a few documented cases in which paternal mitochondrial DNA might have been found in human adults. One paper describes a 28-year-old man had trouble breathing ...

Using mitochondrial DNA sequence data, she then matched more than 60 orphans with their biological families. In fact, as recently as 1999, a young Argentinean man named Guillermo was finally ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. B.H. Abuaita et al., “Mitochondria-derived vesicles deliver antimicrobial reactive oxygen species to control phagosome-localized Staphylococcus ...