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For an article by Danielle Gerhard PhD, entitled “ On the road to treating mitochondrial disease ”, which was published in late 2021 in Drug Discovery News , Dr Michal Minczuk was interviewed on his modified zinc finger nuclease technology to target specific sequences in mitochondrial DNA. Professor Carlos Moraes (...

We are excited to launch our new MITOTrumps card game as this year’s contribution to the Cambridge Festival . MITOTrumps is a card game based on mitochondrial proteins. On each card there is an image of a mitochondrial protein, along with numerical statistics relating to that protein - amino acid number, mutations (the...

The Editorial Team at Nature Reviews Genetics has chosen the recent review by Pedro Silva-Pinheiro and Michal Minczuk as the Journal's featured article for the April issue . The review, entitled The potential of mitochondrial genome engineering , reflects on the past, present and future of mitochondrial genome engineering...

A research article published today (8 February 2022) in Nature Communications describes how Pedro Silva-Pinheiro and colleagues from the Mitochondrial Genetics Group led by Dr Michal Minczuk at the MBU were able to edit the mitochondrial DNA of live mice. The researchers used a biological tool, known as a mitochondrial...