Researchers at Karolinska Institutet may have found a new way to treat obesity and related disorders by targeting the cells' powerhouses, the mitochondria.
<ul> <li><strong>Cancer Research UK-funded scientists at the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute discover that tumours with high levels of mitochondrial DNA mutations are two and a half times more likely to respond to treatment. </strong></li> <li><strong>Link between mitochondria – which generates energy for cancer – and response to treatment shown for the first time. </strong></li> <li><strong>Discovery opens up possibility for tests to identify patients with defective mitochondria and treatments which disrupt cancer’s energy sources.</strong></li>
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