Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA, the small but vital genome that powers every cell. The ...

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 ...

Recent research has shed light on the complex processes that cells use to maintain the quality of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) ...

Fabrizio Ghiselli, Maria Gabriella Maurizii, Arkadiy Reunov, Helena Ariño-Bassols, Carmine Cifaldi, Andrea Pecci, Yana Alexandrova, Simone Bettini, Marco Passamonti, Valeria Franceschini and Liliana ...

A study published in Science reveals a cellular mechanism involved in the inheritance of genetic mutations. The study also points to a potential treatment that could reduce the risk of babies being ...

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 ...

Using sequencing techniques, researchers associated 51 mutations in mitochondrial DNA with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an incurable degenerative neurological disorder that leads to muscle ...

Chloroplasts and mitochondria are, famously, the only organelles to have their own genomes, separate from that housed in the nucleus. According to a study published October 5 in Nature, it turns out ...