When environmental stress harms DNA, it can set off a cascade of failures linked to heart conditions, neurodegeneration, and ...

Researchers have designed a chemical probe to bind damaged mitochondrial DNA, halting the enzymatic processes that lead to ...

Approximately one in 5,000 children is born with mitochondrial mutations each year. Defective mitochondria "leave the body ...

A cohort of eight babies at risk of inheriting mitochondrial disease were born without complications after British scientists ...

Eight babies, born following Mitochondrial Donation treatment to reduce transmission of mitochondrial DNA disease, show no signs of illness.

The story of this potentially paradigmatic development begins where so much of human health begins: the mitochondria.

The UK’s pioneering licensed IVF technique to reduce the risk of mitochondrial diseases carried out in Newcastle, UK, has seen eight babies born, published research shows. All eight babies show no ...

When environmental stress harms DNA, it can set off a cascade of failures linked to heart conditions, neurodegeneration, and chronic inflammation.

Eight children were born with DNA from three people to prevent a deadly genetic disease.

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these mutations cause serious diseases that pass down only through mothers.