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This week (19-25 September, 2021) is World Mitochondrial Disease Week . Every year, monuments around the world are lit up green to raise awareness for mitochondrial disease (mito). 2021's Light Up for Mito will take place in participating countries on Saturday, 25 September 2021. Contributions on twitter can be found by...

Nature Communications has published the results of a research study led by Professor Patrick Chinnery , which show that the dynamic mtDNA landscape contributes to the heterogeneity of human iPSCs. Individual induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) show considerable phenotypic heterogeneity, but the reasons for this are not...

Professor Patrick Chinnery jointly led in the first population-scale study on how common metabolites in the blood are influenced by variations in the DNA of mitochondria (mtDNA) – the powerhouses of human cells. This collaboration between scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute , the University of Cambridge and others...

Ten postgraduate students in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Otago, New Zealand, have been awarded the Mike Murphy and Rob Smith Postgraduate Scholarships for 2021 . Before joining the MRC MBU (previously the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit ) in 2001, Professor Mike Murphy was a member of the Department...