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MELAS (Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like episodes) is one of the family of mitochondrial diseases, which also include MIDD (maternally inherited diabetes and deafness), MERRF syndrome, and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy. It was first characterized under this name in 1984. [2]
The "ragged red fibers" in MELAS syndrome are visible under modified Gomori stain. Gömöri trichrome stain is a histological stain used on muscle tissue. [2] [3] It can be used to test for certain forms of mitochondrial myopathy. It is named for George Gömöri, who developed it in 1950. [4]
Joanna Poulton is a British medical researcher, and Professor of Mitochondrial Genetics at the University of Oxford.She is an honorary consultant in Oxford, where she works on diseases caused by mutations in mitochondrial DNA.
[36] [37] A male baby was born in Mexico in 2016 from a mother with Leigh syndrome using MRT. [38] In September 2012 a public consultation was launched in the UK to explore the ethical issues involved. [39] Human genetic engineering was used on a small scale to allow infertile women with genetic defects in their mitochondria to have children. [40]
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Diabetes and deafness (DAD) or maternally inherited diabetes and deafness (MIDD) or mitochondrial diabetes is a subtype of diabetes which is caused from a mutation in mitochondrial DNA, which consists of a circular genome.