Wednesday, January 8, 2020

How Mitochondrial Defects Can Cause Various Seemingly Unrelated Diseases

"A Mitochondrial Etiology of Common Complex Diseases" [1]

An hour-long discussion of how mitochondrial dysfunction can result in various chronic diseases, and how the assumption that an anatomical division of disease is a driving assumption for how medicine is organized, and how that may block correct description and diagnosis of disease.

The speaker is Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D.; Director, Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine (CMEM); Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

He does an especially good job of describing how malfunction in a single organelle can cause various diseases in various seemingly unrelated organs.

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2 comments:

  1. Hey Tucker,

    Great summary. I wrote down the slides and key points when I watched it circa July 2018 into this Google Doc. Thought you might get some use out of it for reference.

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