Mitochondrial DNA has long been treated as a workhorse record of cellular history, but new research suggests it also hides a subtle and previously overlooked form of damage. By uncovering this cryptic ...
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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Last year, a presentation at the American College of Rheumatology Convergence provided a glimpse into a ...
Biomedical researchers at Texas A&M University may have discovered a way to stop or even reverse the decline of cellular energy production—a finding that could have revolutionary effects across ...
In a step toward treating mitochondrial diseases, researchers in the Netherlands have successfully edited harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA using a genetic tool known as a base editor. The ...
A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how our bodies sense and respond to stress. The findings of the UC ...
Autophagy activators such as kaempferol/emodin (via the PINK1/Parkin pathway) and spautin-1 (stabilizing PINK1 activity) clear damaged mitochondria, while gene therapy targets mtDNA mutations to ...