Mitochondria, the true energy power plants of cellular activity, play a vital role in energy production and in several other essential cellular processes, including lipid and amino acid metabolism, the urea cycle, iron sulfur cluster assembly, iron homeostasis and cell death. In their normal function, mitochondria are able to release…
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As part of its ongoing effort to improve mitochondrial disease patient care, MitoAction — a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for children, adults, and families living with mitochondrial disease through support, education, outreach, advocacy, and clinical research initiatives — in collaboration with the organization’s Medical Advisory…
A new international study by scientists at the University of Granada (UGR) in Spain, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Columbia University in New York, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has uncovered new data on the coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), a molecule which is normally synthesized within an organism’s own…
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