Mito in the News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Boston, MA, April 1, 2024] – MitoAction, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mitochondrialRelated to the mitochondria. disease, recently convened a […]

The Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences recognizes outstanding achievement by a promising young scientist (52 or younger) in biomedical research. It is worth $100,000, and awarded annually by the Foundation […]

https://cob.silverchair-cdn.com/cob/content_public/journal/bio/jam/10.1242_bio.060278/3/bio060278.pdf?Expires=1711827491&Signature=G4px-hX-CQRWqXepaWcuG0-Y-QYF06N9pma-LYMFv5E9CQq~vlJaOQI2uuSjvfqBwOSWi3OMmI79SiubfEXv94SN1ek0zC2F01FEYHL7El0mIQtZ-GTaXhO6IjvA-oOCPOcMpSjZomYdtICQ2E9FpDyRKP70OsoFX-c2qxbyQ6LnPrRgiFgfraB~UqADJy-WSqYrLgNvjSfnUXahRkSo45PxA9pSq8kAm8Pxjivc59PF27oDji~p2dufwrRQlCvYKzjcgaPRg43qMsmTh8DML0rdu1BZWnxueti5C-Rr6znyJPQQfRWDoQw1JVg28p9n15vtBkZjOIRdKg04gKVFSw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA One of the great scientific discoveries of the 20th century is the extraordinary similarity among all living species at the molecular level, despite the extreme diversity of their appearance […]

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2021.767407/full The application of DNA sequencing has led to tremendous progress in our understanding and diagnosis of mitochondrial disease, with mutationsgenetic variant, genetic change in hundreds of genes now established as causes. However, […]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10183817/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37021792/ Every now and then there appears a truly novel proposal for alleviating the misery of mitochondrial disease. In this paper an international team presents such an idea. It’s […]

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/on-genome-editing-with-fyodor-urnov?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=3we41&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#details Fyodor Urnov has been a pioneer and leader in genome editing, a term he invented, since that field began.  He is a U.C. Berkeley colleague of Jennifer Doudna, who […]

This paper is a brilliant advance in our scientific understanding of mitochondrial disease, though it does not lead immediately to a treatment.   https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2304884120 Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is […]

Today I ran across what I thought was an especially clear and concise overview of the several ways in which mitochondria contribute to disease, extracted from the web site of […]

Looking into a deep red light for 3 minutes each day may significantly improve declining eyesight, according to a study published in Journals of Gerontology. Looking into a deep red […]

Back to Biology In sufferers of Parkinson’s disease, clumps of α-synuclein (alpha-synuclein), sometimes known as the ‘Parkinson’s protein’, are found in the brain. These destroy cell membranes, eventually resulting in […]