When our body fights an infection, the immune system must quickly activate defenses and trigger a beneficial inflammatory ...

More than 150 human diseases — including Lou Gehrig’s, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s — are linked to mitochondrial failure, and one Nebraska scientist is working to decode why. A five-year, $2 million ...

A groundbreaking investigation from the Technical University of Munich has uncovered a crucial link between mitochondrial dysfunction and Crohn’s disease. This revelation could transform the ...

The accumulating evidence that metabolic factors play a significant role in the many symptoms of mental disorders opens a whole new approach to treatment. Targeting mitochondrial function promises to ...

A research team has successfully demonstrated the world's first gene-editing treatment for Leber's hereditary optic ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. POLG-related diseases are a diverse family of conditions all caused by mutations in a gene for a ...

MA-5 is a therapeutic intervention for mitochondrial disease that has been demonstrated to ameliorate severe symptoms such as neurological disorders, renal dysfunction, hepatic dysfunction and motor ...

People are suddenly very concerned about the powerhouse of the cell.

An investigation by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US has filled in a missing link between the toxic build-up of proteins in the neurodegenerative condition ...

The UK’s pioneering licensed IVF technique to reduce the risk of mitochondrial diseases carried out in Newcastle has seen eight babies born, published research shows. All eight babies show no signs of ...