About 1.5 billion years ago, tiny visitors came to live inside the cells that later evolved into all plant and animal life—including humans.
Nov 7, 2018
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Researchers have revealed crucial insights into how the Warburg effect causes the dedifferentiation of cancer cells through epigenetic reprogramming. This discovery potentially opens up new avenues for cancer treatments that ...
May 3, 2024
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Britain is set to become the first country in the world to legally offer "three-parent baby" fertility treatments after regulators gave the green light.
Dec 15, 2016
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(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 Dec. 28 in Diabetes ...
Feb 4, 2013
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Some diseases are untreatable because we lack a model system to fully understand symptoms or test possible drugs. This is the case of mitochondrial disease, a rare condition caused by defects in the "cellular powerhouse." ...
Jan 26, 2017
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Monash University researchers have uncovered for the first time the reason mutations in a particular gene lead to mitochondrial disease.
Apr 27, 2021
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A cutting-edge study from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) has given hope to families of children born with a fatal heart muscle disease caused by faulty cell machinery.
Jul 9, 2020
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Case Western Reserve University scientists have discovered that a protein called Kruppel-like Factor 4 (KLF4) controls mitochondria—the "power plants" in cells that catalyze energy production. Specifically, they determined ...
Aug 4, 2015
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If studying a single gene or a diet that might extend longevity is like searching for a fountain of youth, then a new study calls for looking at something more like the whole watershed. Brown University biologists who experimentally ...
May 15, 2014
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The fusion of two adjacent genes can cause cancer by kicking mitochondria into overdrive and increasing the amount of fuel available for rampant cell growth, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have discovered. ...
Jan 3, 2018
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