Typically, humans inherit mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA from their mothers only. But using sequencing data from the mitochondrial genomes of members from three unrelated families, researchers ...

Mitochondria are surrounded by two or more membranes, and the innermost of these membranes is very similar in composition to bacteria. Both mitochondria and chloroplast have their own DNA ...

As a result, ROS from overactive mitochondria are frequently cited as a source of DNA damage. Despite this longstanding belief, few studies have explicitly demonstrated this linkage. Tobias Dansen, a ...

Researchers from the Mitochondrial Medicine Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have better characterized a ...

This structure is so important because it is the site at which the cell's DNA is housed and the ... evolving into present-day mitochondria and chloroplasts. This proposed origin of mitochondria ...

The mitochondrial DNA provided additional insights. "The fact that we find multiple mitochondrial lineages present in the individuals—mitochondria are passed on from mother to child, and so they ...