Preliminary
Cellular — Research on cellular-level aging mechanisms
Review / Commentary
PubMed
Understanding how cells clean up faulty mitochondrial DNA may help explain aging and improve treatments for age-related diseases.
Segregation of mtDNA mutations via stochastic partitioning enables multi-scale selection against deleterious variants; efficiency likely correlates with mitochondrial healthspan and may represent a conserved constraint on eukaryotic longevity.
This review examines how cells across different species separate and manage damaged mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) through a process called 'segregation,' which allows natural selection to eliminate harmful mutations. The author synthesizes evidence that this segregation …
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences