News tagged with mitochondrial genes

Research breakthrough on male infertility

(Medical Xpress) -- Around one in 20 men is infertile, but despite the best efforts of scientists, in many cases the underlying causes of infertility have remained a mystery. New findings by a team of Australian ...

Medical research May 13, 2011 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Why women outlive men: It's in our genes, study says

Scientists are beginning to understand one of life's enduring mysteries - why women live, on average, longer than men.

Genetics Aug 02, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0 |

Discovery may lead to mitochndria syndrome treatment

Mitochondrial depletion syndrome accounts for about 11 percent of the cases of children born with common myopathies and a more mild form of the syndrome affecting adults. A new finding by Cornell researchers ...

Medical research Sep 22, 2011 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Mothers curse linked to male infertility

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers have discovered the first real evidence of the 'mother's curse' and its connection to male infertility due to genetic mutations in mitochondria. Led by Dr. Damian Dowling from Monash University ...

Genetics May 16, 2011 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0 |

In next-gen DNA sequence, new answers to a rare and devastating disease

In Leigh syndrome, infants are born apparently healthy only to develop movement and breathing disorders that worsen over time, often leading to death by the age of 3. The problem is that the mitochondria responsible for powering ...

Medical research Sep 06, 2011 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Grape polyphenols counteract fructose-induced effects

(HealthDay)—Grape polyphenol (PP) supplementation prevents fructose-induced oxidative stress and insulin resistance in healthy volunteers with high metabolic risk, according to research published online ...

Diabetes Feb 04, 2013 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

New study shows how mitochondrial disease may be prevented

A joint team of scientists from The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Laboratory and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) has developed a technique that may prevent the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases in children. ...

Medical research Dec 19, 2012 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Collaboration rapidly connects fly gene discovery to human disease

A collaborative study by scientists at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University, and published March 20 in the online, open access journal PLoS Biology, has discovered that m ...

Genetics Mar 20, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Inheritance of mitochondrial disease determined when mother is still an embryo

(Medical Xpress)—The risk of a child to inherit mitochondrial diseases - i. e. malfunction in what is usually referred to as the power plants of the cell - is largely decided when the future mother herself is still an embryo. ...

Genetics Oct 08, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1 |