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Scientists just figured out how a crucial vitamin-powered molecule reaches the tiny energy factories inside every cell in your body. The breakthrough could help doctors better treat brain diseases and metabolic disorders.
Scientists have successfully used gene editing to restore vision in a mouse model of a hereditary disease that causes blindness in young people. The breakthrough offers hope for thousands living with an incurable condition.
Scientists in Japan discovered that exercise triggers muscle cells to send healing mitochondria to damaged brain cells through the bloodstream, opening doors to new stroke treatments. This breakthrough could help elderly patients too frail to exercise benefit from mitochondrial transfusions.