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Mitochondrial research provides new insights into how our cells process RNA for energy production

Molecular reconstruction of the human mitochondrial RNase Z complex superimposed on frozen tomography sections using human cell mitochondria. Credit: Genis Valentin Gese. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet’s Department of Cell and Molecular Biology have made a major discovery about how human cells produce energy. Their study, published in The EMBO Journal, revealed detailed mechanisms of how mitochondria process RNA (tRNA) molecules…