Mitochondrial mutations don't seem to build up in women's eggs as they age, which suggests they may have evolved a mechanism ...

Since we only inherit mitochondrial DNA from our mothers, it's hoped that swapping out these DNA mutations from the mitochondria in human eggs or ova will prevent defects in the baby.

A groundbreaking trial in the U.K. has released data on eight babies born through a special IVF procedure to lower their risk of mitochondrial DNA disease.

Doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) represents a rare and intriguing deviation from the standard model of strictly maternal inheritance. In bivalves, DUI manifests as ...

The human genome is broadly classified into the genome residing in the cell nucleus (nuclear DNA) and the genome residing in the mitochondria (mitochondrial DNA: mtDNA). Mitochondria are cell ...

The findings were hailed as a breakthrough which raises hopes that women with mutations in their mitochondrial DNA could one day have children ... procedure because it involves the destruction of ...

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

In a step toward treating mitochondrial diseases, researchers in the Netherlands have successfully edited harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA using a genetic tool known as a base editor. The ...

Much of human evolution happened in warmer places. "We had been operating for a while under the assumption that the oldest DNA we're going to get is about 100,000 years," said Disotell.

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

A retrospective review was conducted of 1,118 clinical cases where electron transport chain (ETC) functional testing and mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) genome sequencing were performed on muscle ...

Doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI): A non-conventional mode of mitochondrial DNA transmission where two distinct mitochondrial genomes are inherited – one maternally (F-type) and one ...