Extracting cellular 'engines' may aid in understanding mitochondrial diseases
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 19:00
in Health & Medicine
Medical researchers who crave a means of exploring the genetic culprits behind a host of neuromuscular disorders may have just had their wish granted by a team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scientists have performed surgery on single cells to extract and examine their mitochondria.