In a severe childhood neurodegeneration, novel mechanism found

In a severe childhood neurodegeneration, novel mechanism found Neurology researchers investigating a rare but devastating neurological regression in infants have discovered the cause: gene mutations that severely disrupt crucial functions in mitochondria, the energy-producing structures within cells. The specific disease mechanism, in which mutations disrupt a critical mitochondrial enzyme, has not previously been implicated in a human disease. http://ift.tt/eA8V8J