the neuron is comparatively simple when observed by itself. Neurons are living cells, however, and have many of the same complexities as other cells – such as a nucleus, mitochondria ...

It will give researchers access to the resources and chemistry expertise on compounds that could offer viable mitochondrial therapies for neurodegenerative diseases including motor neuron disease (MND ...

the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects to the muscle - was shorter than in healthy cells. And the movement of the mitochondria, which travel up and down the axons ...