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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New genetic research reveals the complex demographic history of Vanuatu, explaining how Austronesian languages were retained throughout its history despite near-total replacement of early Austronesian ...