Conor Lawless

02 August 2020

Sampling from skeletal muscle sections by laser capture microdissection

What proportion of fibres can we dissect from a section before it starts to disintegrate? Mitochondria are the parts of our cells that are responsible for generating energy. In the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research, we try to understand ways in which the function of mitochondria deteriorates in individual cells during the progression of mitochondrial diseases. There is a good introduction to mitochondrial biology and mitochondrial diseases in this blog post by Max Piotrowicz. ... Read more