Recent years have seen considerable advances in the description and understanding of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) disorders. However, progress towards therapies and prenatal diagnosis of mtDNA ...

New research, in a rat model, finds that both biological sex and mitochondrial DNA – the small set of genes inherited only ...

The model builds on a previous study by Lake and Lek, who is also an assistant professor of genetics at YSM, for which they generated a mitochondrial data set of 56,434 individuals in ...

A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) on February 27, 2025, in Volume 17, Issue 2, titled “Age, sex, and ...

A set of genes that in humans would indicate late-stage neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s are ...

Exciting new research by Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute researchers raises the possibility that we could reduce the severity of heart failure and ...

Mitochondrial DNA, nuclear DNA from autosomes and sex chromosomes, and paleogenomic data from Neanderthals and Denisovans were analyzed.

This study demonstrates that the host's sex plays a significant role in how the gut microbiome evolves with age, even within a genetically diverse ...