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An important step towards the treatment of mitochondrial diseases
Researchers managed to create healthy embryonic stem cells from donor eggs and cell nuclei of patients with mitochondrial diseases.
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Mitochondria in a "bottleneck"
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Aging by inheritance
Scientists have shown for the first time that the aging process occurs not only as a result of the accumulation of mutations in mitochondrial DNA during life. Mutations inherited from the mother can accelerate the aging process.
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The mechanism of inheritance of mitochondrial diseases has been deciphered
The presence and severity of mitochondrial diseases of a person is determined at the stage of embryonic development of his mother.
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Weed out mutants
The organism of a higher animal is able to get rid of mutant mitochondria extremely effectively: they disappear after 2-6 generations. The selection of normal mitochondria occurs in female germ cells or at the subcellular level.
27 February 2008