Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects an estimated 2.3 million people worldwide. Approximately 80% of people with MS have inflammation in the cerebellum, the part of the brain that helps control movement ...

Mitochondria are well known as the powerhouses of the cell. These crucial, energy generating organelles even have their own little genomes, and make their own proteins. Mutations in mitochondrial DNA ...

Mitochondrial dysfunction manifests as structural damage (swelling, cristae rupture, increased volume/decreased numerical density), energy metabolism abnormalities (reduced COX and Complex I-III ...

More than half of people with mitochondrial disease can be diagnosed via genomic sequencing, a finding that will revolutionise care for families, according to a new study. And the Melbourne ...

Researchers from the Mitochondrial Medicine Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have better characterized a spectrum of what were classically considered discrete mitochondrial DNA ...

Chinese researchers have developed a novel and highly efficient mitochondrial capsule transplantation therapy, achieving the ...

In recent years, there has been increasing evidence that mitochondrial dysfunction plays a causative role in Crohn's disease and other gastrointestinal disorders. This can happen for a variety of ...

Human cells have two copies of each chromosome, and this balance is essential for genes to be expressed in the appropriate ...