Similar to the nuclear genome, the mitochondrial ... M. Mitochondrial DNA mutations in human disease. Nature Reviews Genetics 6, 389-402 (2005) doi:10.1038/nrg1606 (link to article) ...

Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known ...

Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann returned to court on Long Island, where a judge set a date for what's called a Frye hearing.

The small study in patients with a rare disorder that causes liver and lung damage showed the potential for precisely ...

A technique may one day prevent something that is currently unpreventable -- the transmission of mitochondrial diseases from mother to child ... creating an embryo with nuclear DNA from the donor egg, ...

Mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (mtDNA) is essential for cellular energy production and overall cell function.

According to a study published October 5 in Nature, it turns out that every so often, DNA escapes from mitochondria and integrates itself into our chromosomes. The findings shed light on how the ...

Mutations in mitochondria can have very serious effects, and they are even the basis for several diseases ... genome. It has also become clear that mtDNA may have a close relationship with nuclear ...

Shortly after the FMD outbreak, the specific virus genome was sequenced by ... This not only helps to diagnose a disease but can also disclose its origin and evolution, as well as its potential threat ...

In recent years, we decided to adopt our knowledge of studying nuclear DNA stability to the specifics of the mitochondria, and address outstanding questions related to mtDNA replication and repair. To ...

Chromosomes are the fundamental structural units of our genome. The Sfeir lab seeks to understand basic chromosome biology and how their mismanagement manifests in disease. Our research is focused on ...