Researchers from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute in Melbourne have identified two new genes linked to a major cause of mitochondrial disease. Their research opens the way for better genetic diagnosis of the disease ...
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No specific treatments are currently available for triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), a type of tumor that lacks the receptors targeted by many breast cancer therapies. Although many TNBC tumors lack two tumor suppressors, ...
Aug 29, 2016
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A mouse with dysfunctional mitochondria may hold the key to treating Leigh syndrome in humans.
Jul 18, 2016
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Exercise and fasting do not change the location of a key enzyme involved in energy production, a study in Experimental Physiology found.
Jun 24, 2016
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Gender-specific differences between the levels and structures of proteins present in the white matter and the mitochondria of the brains of men and women suffering from dementia have been revealed for the first time in a ...
Mar 16, 2016
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When one eats may be as important as what one eats. New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science and in Germany, which recently appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), suggests that the ...
Mar 16, 2016
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In cardiac hypertrophy, metabolic energy reserves in the heart are depleted, which is thought to contribute to the subsequent development of heart failure. The primary energy source in the heart relies on fatty acid oxidation ...
Feb 25, 2016
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A lack of a particular mitochondrial protein in genetically manipulated mice has shown to trigger events in the body that causes mild heart hypertrophy (enlargement) and severe fatty liver disease.
Apr 21, 2015
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Where ALS comes from and how it progresses are mysteries that continue to vex medical science. But recent research at Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology has found three proteins that could shed some light on the mechanisms ...
Mar 24, 2015
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Tumor recurrence following a period of remission is the main cause of death in cancer. The ability of cancer cells to remain dormant during and following therapy, only to be reactivated at a later time, frequently with greater ...
Mar 3, 2015
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