For women who are carriers of mitochondrial diseases, one particular in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure for having a healthy baby appears to be safe, according to new research. This option, called ...

Transferring the nuclear genome from one egg into the cytoplasm of a donor egg is a strategy to enable women carrying mutations in their mitochondrial DNA to have healthy babies. A new study from Wei ...

Several human diseases arise due to defects in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is distinct from nuclear DNA and is inherited only from maternal ancestors. The prevention of these diseases by ...

Transferring the nuclear genome from one egg into the cytoplasm of a donor egg is a strategy to enable women carrying mutations in their mitochondrial DNA to have healthy babies. A new study uses ...