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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 ...

Despite being renowned as the “powerhouse of the cell,” mitochondria can also be a source of heartache for those living with mitochondrial disease—especially when planning to have children. Because ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...