The human genome is contained in the nucleus of almost every cell in the body. But those cells also contain multitudes of mitochondria, and these incredible little power-generating organelles carry ...

Mitochondria, the powerhouses of cells, contain their own special DNA that gets passed from mother to child ... in development for many years and is only just making its way into human patients. Early ...

A groundbreaking IVF trial has raised hope that women with genetic mutations in their own DNA could one day have children ...

Children born through the three-person technique inherit most of their DNA, their genetic blueprint, from their parents, but ...

Early results are encouraging In the new study, the babies were born to seven women at high risk of transmitting serious, disease-causing mitochondrial DNA mutations to their offspring.

With mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT), the science of 3-parent babies offers hope, but also raises new questions about ...

LONDON (AP) — Eight healthy babies were born in Britain with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help mothers avoid passing devastating rare diseases to their ...

Using this method means the embryo has DNA from three people — from the mother’s egg, the father’s sperm and the donor’s mitochondria — and it required a 2016 U.K. law change to approve it.