MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit

The results of a collaborative research study jointlyled Mike Murphy’s laboratory have been published in Nature Cardiovascular Research . In the research article, scientists at the MBU and the Department of Medicine , University of Cambridge and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH, Bethesda, USA...

We are proud to share the news that Kath Hammond, a second year PhD student in Professor Mike Murphy's research group, was awarded a prize for the "best short talk" at the recent Wellcome Connecting Science: Mitochondrial medicine - Therapeutic development conference. Kath's presentation focused on the active/deactive...

New research carried out by members of Patrick Chinnery’s group has been published in Science . The article, “ Ubiquitin-mediated mitophagy regulates the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA mutations ” explains how mitochondrial mutations can overcome the intrinsic cellular quality control systems to cause disease and how to...