Author Archives: Charles Moore

United Kingdom-based Imanova has received £1 million ($1.2 million U.S.) of strategic Medical Research Council (MRC) funding to clinically evaluate new positron emission tomography (PET) imaging tracers for measuring mitochondrial dysfunction and synaptic loss associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Imanova previously had received a £0.5 million $623,000 U.S.) MRC grant…

Co-sponsors The Foundation for Mitochondrial Medicine (FMM) and The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (UMDF) have announced that the Southeast Regional Symposium on Mitochondrial Medicine, will be held April 7-8 in Birmingham, Ala. A full day of clinical/medical (CME) sessions will be conducted on Friday, April…

Cara Koscinski is, by many measures, an exceptional woman. A pediatric occupational therapist, she’s also the author of numerous books on her specialty and on kids with special needs, a public speaker on these topics, a web publisher, and a homeschooling mom to her two own special-needs children: Joshua, 13,…

Sport equipment manufacturers Russell Athletic has named Huntington High School in New York state as its 2016 “Fight Like Dylan Award” award recipient. Now in its sixth year, the annual award honors high school sports teams that have used inspiration to achieve success through teamwork in the face of…

Researchers at the University of Arkansas’ bioenergetics lab at its Fayetteville campus will lead a team of collaborators in a study funded by a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense. Its main goal is to investigate the origin of Leigh’s disease, a rare and incurable disorder…

Boston, Massachusetts-based clinical-stage biopharma Stealth BioTherapeutics has released positive results from the MMPOWER Phase 2 trial, a double-blind, dose-ascending, placebo-controlled study investigating the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of its lead drug candidate elamipretide for treating primary mitochondrial myopathy (muscle weakness) in genetically confirmed mitochondrial disease patients. The trial evaluated…

The Pittsburgh, Penn. based United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (UMDF) will celebrate its 20th anniversary at the Mitochondrial Medicine 2016 Symposium this week in Seattle, Wash., according to a press release provided to Mitochondrial Disease News. Currently recognized as the world’s foremost mitochondrial disease symposium, just 10 years ago the UMDF…

Mitochondria (singular mitochondrion) are tiny subunits present inside every cell of the human body except red blood cells, from the skin to the deep internal organs. Mitochondria’s main role is transforming food and oxygen that enter the cells into useful energy, creating more than 90 percent of the energy needed by…

Findings of a new study are overturning longstanding scientific theories about how energy is distributed within muscles for powering movement. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health report the first clear evidence that muscle cells distribute energy primarily by the rapid conduction of electrical charges through a vast, interconnected network…

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…