The National Institute on Aging has awarded $2.85 million in funding to a research team from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) to study the role of mitochondria — cells’ powerhouses — in age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer’s. The five-year funding will support a project called “The interaction effects of genetic variants, age, diet, sex and mitochondrial copy number on Alzheimer’s disease, aging-phenotypes and longevity.” Mitochondria, the organelles that provide energy to cells,…
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