Why does motor neuron disease take so long to diagnose? And can it be treated?
Rugby league player Jai Arrow's recently announced diagnosis of motor neuron disease has again brought this devastating disease to public attention.
May 22, 2026
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Disease or Syndrome: Dysfunction, Mitochondria
Medical news and research articles
Why energy fades with age: Missing membrane lipid may destabilize mitochondria
Why do cells age—and why do we lose our energy and vitality as we get older? This question is one of the central challenges of modern biomedicine. The focus is particularly on mitochondria—tiny cellular organelles long known ...
May 21, 2026
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Obesity and Alzheimer's linked by disease-driving metabolic pathways
By 2030, the population in the United States aged 65 and older is expected to reach 71 million or about 20% of Americans. This growth is likely to increase the burden of age-related diseases, particularly Alzheimer's disease ...
May 5, 2026
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Therapeutic potential of natural antioxidant expanded to kidney stone patients
What began as research aimed at expanding the limited treatment options for cystinuria, a rare genetic disorder affecting 1 in every 7,000 people, characterized by the recurrent formation of cystine stones in the kidneys ...
Apr 21, 2026
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'MitoCatch' delivers healthy mitochondria to diseased cells
Scientists led by Botond Roska at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) have developed MitoCatch, a system that enables targeted delivery of healthy mitochondria to specific cell types affected ...
Apr 15, 2026
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How does mitochondrial DNA influence human health?
Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular powerhouses are in a 1.5-billion-year-old evolutionary relationship—but mitochondria brought some baggage. ...
Apr 6, 2026
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Cellular stress signal found to drive immune exhaustion and weaken cancer therapy
Cancer-fighting T cells do not simply "run out of energy." They are molecularly reprogrammed. For years, mitochondrial dysfunction has been recognized as a hallmark of exhausted T cells in tumors. Yet how metabolic stress ...
Mar 18, 2026
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Mitochondria identified as key players in a rare disease causing microcephaly
Human cells have two copies of each chromosome, and this balance is essential for genes to be expressed in the appropriate proportions and for cells to function correctly. When errors occur during cell division and the number ...
Mar 17, 2026
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A new roadmap spotlights aging as key to advancing research in Parkinson's disease
Even though aging is the largest risk factor for Parkinson's disease, the majority of research aimed at taming the incurable neurodegenerative motor disease has largely left aging out of the mix. A group of researchers from ...
Feb 11, 2026
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Study reveals potential therapeutic target for treating glaucoma
Researchers have identified a metabolically sensitive cell subtype in the eye's drainage system which shows early signs of dysfunction in a genetic mouse model of glaucoma.
Jan 20, 2026
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