{"id":210901,"date":"2025-04-08T17:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/specialized-recycling-system-eliminates-faulty-mitochondrial-dna"},"modified":"2025-04-08T17:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:12:31","slug":"specialized-recycling-system-eliminates-faulty-mitochondrial-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/specialized-recycling-system-eliminates-faulty-mitochondrial-dna","title":{"rendered":"Specialized Recycling System Eliminates Faulty Mitochondrial DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/specialized-recycling-system-eliminates-faulty-mitochondrial-dna.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damage to the mitochondria, the \u201cpower plants\u201d of the cells, contributes to many diseases. Researchers from Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf (HHU) and the University of Cologne led by HHU professor of medicine Dr David Pla-Mart\u00edn, now describe in the scientific journal Science Advances how cells with defective mitochondria activate a special recycling system to eliminate damaged genetic material.<\/p>\n<p>Damage to the genetic material of mitochondria \u2013 the mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA for short \u2013 can lead to diseases such as Parkinson\u2019s, Alzheimer\u2019s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. Such damage also speeds up the ageing process. However, the cells are normally capable of identifying such damage and reacting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damage to the mitochondria, the \u201cpower plants\u201d of the cells, contributes to many diseases. Researchers from Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf (HHU) and the University of Cologne led by HHU professor of medicine Dr David Pla-Mart\u00edn, now describe in the scientific journal Science Advances how cells with defective mitochondria activate a special recycling system to eliminate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}