Heart arrhythmia could be a common medical condition occurring in people with MELAS syndrome, according to a recent case study report from researchers in Arkansas, Ohio and Texas. The recently published report, titled “Arrhythmia as a cardiac manifestation in MELAS syndrome” appeared in the journal Molecular Genetics and…

MitoMedical, which specializes in supplements for mitochondrial dysfunction, has  launched a public education initiative to help parents of children with mitochondrial problems to learn more about how brain conditions, such as autism, might arise when mitochondria are not working properly. As part of the initiative, MitoMedical released an educational webinar…

The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), a nonprofit organization representing all patients and families affected by rare diseases, published the Physician Guide to Mitochondrial Myopathies, available free online to medical professionals worldwide. The guide, written by Drs. Michelangelo Mancuso and Michio Hirano, can be…

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…

Researchers at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences in India reported a case of adult onset Leigh’s disease that showed dramatic improvement following treatment. This case study suggests that late onset Leigh’s disease may be treatable.

NeuroVive Pharmaceutical AB, together with researchers from Lund University, will release new research data in three poster presentations at the upcoming Mitochondrial Medicine: Developing New Treatments for Mitochondrial Disease conference, to be held May 4–6, in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The data will largely be related to NeuroVive’s drug discovery platform, NVP015.

A study using mathematical analysis of mitochondrial morphology in malignant mesothelioma found that inhibiting mitochondria might be an effective treatment strategy against the deadly cancer — and suggested that the appearance of mitochondria might predict the response to such inhibition. The findings indicated that selectively blocking mitochondria might be a promising new…

Alterations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are associated with the risk for pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to a study titled “Clinicopathological Implications of Mitochondrial Genome Alterations in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia” and published in the journal Annals of Laboratory Medicine. Mitochondria are key organelles within cells that are…

Patients with asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) are closer to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) based on mitochondria dysfunction, according to a recent study titled “Analysis of mitochondrial DNA alteration in new phenotype ACOS,” published in the open access journal BMC Pulmonary Medicine. Mitochondria are organelles within…

People with Parkinson’s disease have decreased amounts of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) both in the blood and the brain, researchers from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K., reported in a study  published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging. In the study, titled “Reduced mitochondrial DNA copy number is…