With mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT), the science of 3-parent babies offers hope, but also raises new questions about ...

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking method that could make this a reality for families at risk of passing on certain genetic conditions. This method, called the three-parent DNA technique, is ...

Approximately one in 5,000 children is born with mitochondrial mutations each year. Defective mitochondria "leave the body ...

Scientists at Newcastle University used a new IVF technique that combines a mother’s egg and father’s sperm with a second egg ...

Eight healthy babies were born in Britain with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help ...

In the UK, eight children have thus far been born using the DNA of three people, a method known as mitochondria donation ...

This groundbreaking technique aims to prevent children from inheriting severe, incurable mitochondrial diseases from their ...

A pioneering reproductive technology reduced the risk of children inheriting disease-causing mutations in mitochondria, ...

LONDON - A pioneering IVF technique combining DNA from three people to protect a baby from a rare genetic disease has been ...

However, a gene mutation in the mitocondria's DNA, like the one caused by PolG, ... that starts to point to something fundamental, like a mitochondrial problem," said Yeske.