Very interesting use of mitochondria - as transplants to replace damaged versions in human organs.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/health/mitochondria-transplant-heart-attack.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29981562
The DOI (digital object identifier, aka ID number) for this doesn't seem to work, so I'm not sure anything beyond the abstract has been published yet.
Paywalled at https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131(18)30390-5
Article on the study
https://news.usc.edu/145046/mitochondrial-dna-nuclear-dna-work-together-usc-study/
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Researchers report in a new study that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori - a major contributor to gastritis, ulcers and stomach cancer—resists the body's immune defenses by shutting down energy production within the cells of the stomach lining that serve as a barrier to infection.
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The human...
This may be of interest to some,
The article, https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-impaired-energy-production-brain-susceptible.amp
The paper, https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(18)30703-4
The article, https://phys.org/news/2018-05-lactate-poison.amp
The paper, https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(18)30186-4?
Full paper here, http://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.cmet.2018.03.008
Posting this because of its relevance to energy production and metabolic disease.
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-atp-synthase.html
The paper, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/04/11/science.aas9699
Edit: fixed link
Although Mitochondria may very well be related to ME/CFS the article does not mention it so I chose to put it under the heading "Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS".
Defeating Diseases with Energy
The discovery of a subset of mitochondria that have a different type of function.
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-scientists-cells-mitochondria-specialized-fats.amp
The full paper is here,
I think this might be of interest to us but really it's so technical I'm out of my depth.
What caught my attention was recalling that this recent study claimed that itaconate is an anti-inflammatory metabolite (recent forum thread on the study here) and reading the Wikipedia article that...
The most common misdiagnosis is... you guessed it... psychiatric disorder.
https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/mitochondrial-disease-patients-face-difficult-road-diagnosis
Thought this was interesting, no idea if it's useful or not though.
https://www.labroots.com/trending/cell-and-molecular-biology/8312/cell-stress-elongates-mitochondria
This research is in its early stages and there are still lots of questions surrounding it.
Quoting from a post on another forum
A thyroid hormone different from T4 and T3 acts as a control of insulin production by affecting the energy producing factories (mitochondria). Like T4 , the hormone...
Picked up from one of the folks I follow on Twitter I don’t think it has been posted
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-mitochondria-to-nucleus-messenger-protein.html
Boston University School of Medicine.
I thought this was interesting, the significant discovery of how mitochondrial DNA ends up outside the mitochondria, where it can potentially trigger autoimmune conditions.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-dna-scientists-rogue-molecule-trigger.amp?
There is a video clip showing the...
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