Mitochondria “Talk” to Cells When Stress Occurs

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Mitochondria exchange signals with a cell’s nucleus in ways important to our health and disease. CHOP researchers are working to better understand how that happens, as they seek effective treatments for mitochondrial diseases—and possibly more common problems as well.

Read comments by CHOP’s Dr. Marni Falk about a new study describing how mitochondria play a role in human aging and in how our cells respond to stress, in this Philadelphia Inquirer article.

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