New research at the University of Alberta may make it easier to diagnose serious diseases that disrupt the body's energy ...

Targeting mitochondrial retrograde signaling may therefore be promising in the treatment or prevention of metabolic disorders ...

A four-week old baby is one of just 23 to have been diagnosed with a deadly genetic disease so rare that it has no name.

Mitochondrial defects, however, are associated with the development of diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Patients who suffer from this disorder are unable to produce enough insulin or use the insulin ...

Mitochondria, often seen as cellular powerhouses, play a surprising role in immune regulation. Researchers found that ...

I’d also like to see them do NAD research on mitochondrial or muscle diseases because in neurology, mitochondrial diseases are most prevalent in muscular neurological problems,” he added ...

Mitochondria organelles came from primordial bacterial endosymbionts and still preserve distinct genes for important functions like making ATP. To speed the emerging therapeutic research into the ...

Consequently, impairment in mitochondrial function can result in aging and age-related diseases. An emerging ... are common in humans - for example there are about 3 billion to 12 billion ...

The findings highlight the potential of targeting mitochondrial function specifically in immune cells to treat a range of inflammation-related diseases. “Therapies aimed at improving mitochondrial ...