Mel McSweeney and Dr Mildrid Yeo briefly outline the approach to urea cycle disorder management and the Gt Ormond Street experience using glycerol phenylbutyrate as a nitrogen scavenger. 

Clinical experience with glycerol phenylbutyrate in 20 patients with urea cycle disorders at a UK paediatric centre
Mildrid Yeo, et al
https://doi.org/10.1002/jmd2.12386

Shortcast: Clinical experience with glycerol phenylbutyrate in 20 patients with UCDs

Marie-Thérèse Henke, Alessandro Prigione, and Markus Schuelke get 2025 off to an informative start discussing why so many models exist for Leigh Syndrome, why we need them and how insights from disease models have led to Sildenafil being used in some patients. 

Disease models of Leigh syndrome: From yeast to organoids
Marie-Thérèse Henke, Alessandro Prigione, Markus Schuelke
https://doi.org/10.1002/jimd.12804

Models in Leigh Syndrome

It seems everyone is talking about autophagy but what is it and what happens when it goes wrong? Hormos Salimi Dafsari, Carlo Dionisi-Vici, and Heinz Jungbluth join the podcast to answer these questions, discuss their experience across 3 (or 2.5) generations of clinical practice and why you never see an obese 100-year-old.

An update on autophagy disorders
Hormos Salimi Dafsari, et al
https://doi.org/10.1002/jimd.12798

An update on autophagy disorders

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New tracks tagged #inherited metabolic disorders