A team of scientists have elucidated an ancient mechanism of cellular respiration. To that end, they studied bacteria that feed on the gases carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and turn them into acetic acid ...

Animals, plants and many other living organisms inhale oxygen to "burn" (oxidize) compounds like sugar into CO2 and water—a ...

Scientists at Goethe University uncover how the oldest enzyme in cellular respiration functions – opening the door to ...

Scientists in Basel revealed that energy-producing proteins in mitochondria form large supercomplexes, boosting ATP ...

All organisms need ATP to live. Respiration is only around 40 per cent efficient. As animals respire, heat is also released. In birds and mammals, this heat is distributed around the body by the ...

Cells that have a high-energy demand such as nerve cells and muscle cells contain a large number of mitochondria to maximise ATP production by aerobic respiration. A muscle cell contains ...

In the same way that the genetic code enables information to transcend chemistry, so Mitchell's proton gradients enable cellular ... respiration, which supplies more than 80 percent of our ATP.