Prince Frederik of Luxembourg died at the age of 22 due to a rare mitochondrial condition called POLG disease—Newsweek has ...

A long-studied metabolic hormone, FGF21, also acts as a stress hormone—a discovery that helps explain how psychological stress causes metabolic dysregulation and drives physical disease, according to ...

The AHA recommended whole exome or whole genome sequencing as first-line diagnostic tools for mitochondrial diseases.

In recent years, there has been increasing evidence that mitochondrial dysfunction plays a causative role in Crohn's disease and other gastrointestinal disorders. This can happen for a variety of ...

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these mutations cause serious diseases that pass down only through mothers. They ...

Millions of people worldwide live with mitochondrial diseases. These are inherited conditions that make it hard for the body’s cells to produce energy. For a long time, patients had few options ...