News tagged with mitochondrial diseases
Key protein in cellular respiration discovered
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Many diseases derive from problems with cellular respiration, the process through which cells extract energy from nutrients. Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have now discovered a new function ...
Large reservoir of mitochondrial DNA mutations identified in humans
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Newcastle, England, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech in the United States have revealed a large reservoir of mitochondrial DNA mutations present in the general population. ...
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Quick and easy diagnosis for mitochondrial disorders
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Soon you could be genetically screened for mitochondrial disorders quickly and comprehensively. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal, Genome Medicine, outlines an innovative clinical diagnostic test f ...
New clues about mitochondrial 'growth spurts'
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Mitochondria are restless, continually merging and splitting. But contrary to conventional wisdom, the size of these organelles depends on more than fusion and fission, as Berman et al. show. Mitochondrial ...
Mitochondrial DNA mutations can cause degenerative heart and muscle disease
Feb 14, 2008 |
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A single change in the DNA of mitochondria – the cellular power plants that generate energy in all human cells – has been found to cause degenerative heart and muscle disease, according to University of California, Irvine ...
New drug targets for preventing cell death
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 28, 2008 |
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A new compound that blocks an early step in cell death could lead to a novel class of drugs for treating heart attacks and stroke.
How mitochondrial gene defects impair respiration, other major life functions
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Researchers are delving into abnormal gene function in mitochondria, structures within cells that power our lives. Mitochondria are the place where energy is generated from the most basic molecules of food. Because this function ...
Mitochondrial 'bottleneck' cracked
Jan 27, 2008 |
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Scientists have shown for the first time how a particular family of diseases are passed down from mother to child and how this can lead to the severity of the disease differing widely. The research, funded by the Wellcome ...
New test for mysterious metabolic diseases developed at Stanford/Packard
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a much-needed way to monitor and find treatments for a mysterious and devastating group of metabolic diseases that arise from mutations in cells' fuel-burning ...
New hope for treating common form of inherited neuromuscular disease
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Treatments that ramp up production of the tiny "motors" that power cells may have promise for treating one of the most common forms of inherited neuromuscular disease, according to a report in the September Cell Metabolism, a Cell ...
Mitochondria could be a target for therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease patients
Nov 05, 2008 |
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A study in the Sept. 21 on-line edition of Nature Medicine describes the function and interaction of a critical molecule involved in cell death in Alzheimer's disease patients. These new findings reveal that blocking this m ...
Alzheimer's disease linked to mitochondrial damage
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have demonstrated that attacks on the mitochondrial protein Drp1 by the free radical nitric oxide—which causes a chemical reaction called S-nitrosylation—mediates ...
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