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 ...

A groundbreaking IVF trial has raised hope that women with genetic mutations in their own DNA could one day have children without passing on deadly diseases.

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

Ten years after the UK became the first country to legalize mitochondrial donation, the first results from the use of these ...

Researchers report that eight healthy babies were born with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three ...

Doctors used an experimental IVF treatment to prevent babies from inheriting genetic diseases from their parents.

Eight children have been born in the UK using genetic material from three people, which appears to have prevented them from developing serious genetic conditions ...

The IVF technique uses DNA from the mother’s egg, the father’s sperm, and a small amount from a healthy donor’s egg.

In a step toward treating mitochondrial diseases, researchers in the Netherlands have successfully edited harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA using a genetic tool known as a base editor. The ...

The technique, developed by the Newcastle team, involves creating an embryo using DNA from three people: nuclear DNA from the intended mother and father, and healthy mitochondrial DNA from a donor egg ...