DNA can sustain serious injuries called double strand breaks, in which both strands of the helix snap. These breaks are among ...

Mitochondrial replacement therapy, where a nucleus from a mother's egg cell is transferred into a donor egg containing healthy mitochondria, shows promise for preventing the inheritance of ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) --In a news release issued Wednesday, medical researchers laid out ethical standards for clinical investigations into mitochondrial replacement therapy, or MRT. MRT is ...

BLOOM (TAMPA) – In a recent episode of the health and wellness show Bloom with host Gayle Guyardo, Tami Oberbroeckling PA-C, the founder of Tampa Bay Total Wellness, Florida’s foremost Age-Management ...

The Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) met February 25 to consider the safety of human testing of mitochondrial manipulation ...

The study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution and led by a multidisciplinary research team at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH) together with researchers in ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new wave of research is forcing a rethink, showing that the three-dimensional ...

Medical experts released a report Wednesday, advising that women with certain genetic diseases should be able to conceive children with the aid of a second mother. In the proposed technique, a "third ...

Mitochondrial replacement therapy shows promise for preventing the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA diseases. However, small amounts of mitochondrial DNA can sometimes hitch a ride with the ...