Race to find a cure for heartbreaking disease which slowly killed baby Indi Gregory
Indi Gregory's heartbreaking battle with the disease has shone fresh light on mitochondrial disease, a catch-all term for genetic disorders caused by mutations in mitochondria. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Upstate scientists awarded $2 million to unlock secrets of aging: investigating mitochondria-lysosome interaction
Professors Xie Jie Chen, PhD, and Patricia Kane, PhD, will collaborate on this study over the next five years (Source: SUNY Upstate Medical)
Source: SUNY Upstate Medical - September 19, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: News Research Source Type: news
A potential blood test for Parkinson ’s disease
A blood test that measures damage to cells ’ mitochondria was able to distinguish people with Parkinson’s disease from those without. (Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH))
Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - September 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A blood test for Parkinson ’s disease?
Parkinson’s disease, a brain disorder that gradually leads to difficulty moving, tremors, and usually dementia by the end, is often difficult to diagnose early in its yearslong progression. That makes testing experimental treatments challenging and slows people from getting existing drugs, which can’t stop the ongoing death of brain cells but temporarily improve many of the resulting symptoms. Now, a study using rodents and tissue from diagnosed Parkinson’s patients suggests DNA damage spotted in blood samples offers a simple way to diagnose the disease early.
Although the potential test needs to be validated i...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 30, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Laser Light Therapy Stimulates Regeneration
Elsie has been a patient at the Sears Institute for Anti-Aging for years. So when she called me in tears, I told her to come in right away…
Elsie was leaving on her dream vacation to Africa in less than a week.
But she could barely stand up.
Her lower back pain was so severe she didn’t even think she could handle the 19-hour flight from Miami to Kenya. Let alone the six-hour drive from the capital city of Nairobi to the Maasai Mara Reserve, where she was going on a week-long safari.
Elsie was desperate for relief but didn’t want to manage the pain with prescription or over-the-counter muscle relaxants or painkill...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - August 28, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Anti-Aging Source Type: news
SARS-CoV-2 can cause lasting damage to cells ’ energy production
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can cause lasting damage to energy production by mitochondria in many organs of the body. (Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH))
Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - August 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Long COVID: Mitochondria, the Big Miss, and Hope Long COVID: Mitochondria, the Big Miss, and Hope
This week there was news on Long COVID: emergence of data to support mitochondrial dysfunction as a potential cause, and learning how $1.15 billion to the NIH RECOVER initiative has largely been wasted.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - August 15, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Microglia Rescue Aggregate-Burdened Neurons
Researchers discover that neurons trade protein aggregates for microglial-derived mitochondria through tunneling nanotubes. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - June 12, 2023 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
This Molecule Is The Key To Stopping Autoimmune Disease
I’m seeing an epidemic of autoimmune diseases in my practice. My patients come to me when doctor after doctor has ignored their symptoms or given up on them.
You see, the problem is that most doctors still don’t understand these diseases.
I’m talking about things like lupus… rheumatoid arthritis… fibromyalgia… chronic fatigue syndrome… inflammatory bowel disease… and multiple sclerosis (MS).
Of course, there are many more. About 80 conditions affecting organs throughout the body are known as autoimmune disorders. They affect around 50 million Americans.
These are all conditions where your immune system beco...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - May 25, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Anti-Aging Health Natural Cures Source Type: news
Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson ’s disease
A groundbreaking epidemiological study has produced the most compelling evidence yet that exposure to the chemical solvent trichloroethylene (TCE)—common in soil and groundwater—increases the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. The movement disorder afflicts about 1 million Americans, and is likely the fastest growing neurodegenerative disease in the world; its global prevalence has doubled in the past 25 years.
The report, published today in
JAMA Neurology
, involved examining the medical records of tens of thousands of Marine Corps and Navy veterans who trained at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune ...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 15, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
MICU1 regulates mitochondrial cristae structure and function independently of the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter channel | Science Signaling
MICU1 plays distinct roles in regulating mitochondrial architecture and Ca2+ influx into mitochondria. (Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment)
Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment - April 25, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Next-generation bed nets get major endorsement from World Health Organization
A new tool to fight the world’s deadliest animal—the malaria-carrying mosquito—may soon become more widely available. Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed using a new kind of bed net treated with insecticides. It combines two chemicals to more effectively kill the mosquitoes that transmit the parasite that causes malaria, a disease that killed an estimated 619,000 people in 2022, most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa.
Insecticide-treated bed nets
protect people from malaria
in two ways. They prevent mosquitoes from reaching the person sleeping under the net, and they kil...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 15, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
" Semantic similarity " leads to novel drug candidates for Parkinson's disease
The words that researchers use to describe their results can be harnessed to discover potential new treatments for Parkinson's disease, according to a new study published in the open access journal PLOS Biology by Angus McQuibban of the University of Toronto, Canada, and colleagues. The study employed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to identify an existing anti-cholesterol drug that has the ability to promote disposal of mitochondria, energy-making components of the cell which are damaged in the disease. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - March 2, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Toxic agents can target mitochondria, influence disease, expert says
<img width="100" src="https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/sites/niehs-factor/files/styles/large/public/2022/8/feature/1-feature-mitochondrial-dysfunction/thumb941846.jpg?itok=UHU2i95l" /><br /><p>Joel Meyer, Ph.D., discussed his research into how early-life mitochondrial toxicity can affect later-life health, during NIEHS lecture.</p>
(read more) (Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter)
Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - February 3, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news
Cells ’ vulnerability to carcinogens influenced by mitochondria’s shape
<img width="100" src="https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/sites/niehs-factor/files/styles/large/public/2022/2/science-highlights/mitochondria-and-cancer/thumb931090.jpg?itok=1heZrugP" /><br /><p>Kasturi Mitra, Ph.D., studies how the structure of organelles called mitochondria can affect cellular response to cancer-causing agents.</p>
(read more) (Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter)
Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - February 3, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news
