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Most patients with mitochondrial disease can be diagnosed via genomic sequencing

More than half of people with mitochondrial disease can be diagnosed via genomic sequencing, a finding that will revolutionise care for families, according to a new study. And the Melbourne ...
Medical Xpress

Scientists target mitochondrial dysfunction in children's eye disease

In most cases, the damage is linked to mutations in the OPA1 gene, which interfere with mitochondrial function (how cells make energy and stay healthy). New research led by Thomas Schwarz, Ph.D., and ...
Yale Environment 360

Decoding disease: Novel tool helps identify mutations in mitochondrial DNA

Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known as constraint modeling, which allows researchers to assess the degree of ...
Business Insider

Tisento Therapeutics Announces Publication of MELAS Interview Study, Incorporating Patients’ Perspectives to Elucidate Symptoms and Impacts of Rare Mitochondrial Disease

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tisento Therapeutics today announced that the findings from the company’s interview study in MELAS (Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis ...
The Washington Post

Scientists use DNA from three people to protect babies from rare disease

LONDON — A pioneering IVF technique combining DNA from three people to protect a baby from a rare genetic disease has been used in Britain, leading to a healthy cohort of eight babies with no sign of ...