Journal of Biomedical Science is supported by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan.
Induced pluripotent stem cells: ex vivo models for human diseases due to mitochondrial DNA mutations
Mitochondria are essential organelles for cellular metabolism and physiology in eukaryotic cells. Human mitochondria have their own genome (mtDNA), which is maternally inherited with 37 genes, encoding 13 poly...