Researchers report evidence of biparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria, the energy-producing organelles of cells, contain their own compact genomes that are separate from the nuclear ...

Mitochondria are often called the powerhouse of the cell, and these organelles are well-known for their energy-generating abilities. They are also special among organelles because they carry a tiny ...

In September 6 Nature, Sofia Berlin and Hans Ellegren from Uppsala University, Sweden, examine the controversial clonal inheritance theory for vertebrate mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) by following ...

Transferring the nuclear genome from one egg into the cytoplasm of a donor egg is a strategy to enable women carrying mutations in their mitochondrial DNA to have healthy babies. A new study uses ...

New research provides insight about the bedrock scientific principle that mitochondrial DNA - the distinct genetic code embedded in the organelle that serves as the powerplant of every cell in the ...

While most of the time eukaryotes get their mitochondrial genome from their female parent, the presence of paternal mitochondrial DNA has been occasionally reported, especially in hybrids. But leakage ...

University of Queensland researchers have discovered a mechanism in DNA that regulates how disease-causing mutations are inherited. Dr. Anne Hahn and Associate Professor Steven Zuryn from UQ's ...

A cohort of eight babies at risk of inheriting mitochondrial disease were born without complications after British scientists used a pioneering IVF technique. LONDON — A pioneering IVF technique ...

Transferring the nuclear genome from one egg into the cytoplasm of a donor egg is a strategy to enable women carrying mutations in their mitochondrial DNA to have healthy babies. A new study from Wei ...

In most eukaryotes, the inheritance of mitochondrion and its DNA (mtDNA) is strictly maternal, despite the fact that a spermatozoon can inject up to 100 functional mitochondria into the oocyte during ...