Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases: News and Research on Mitochondrial Diseases

MeSH tree: C18.452.660

'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 ...

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. ...

Active ingredient of Viagra can help treat rare genetic disease

Sildenafil—an active ingredient also marketed under the name of Viagra—improves symptoms in patients with Leigh syndrome. This has now been reported in the journal Cell by researchers at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, ...

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