Now, scientists at the University of California, Riverside, may have found a way to halt the damage before it begins. The ...

When environmental stress harms DNA, it can set off a cascade of failures linked to heart conditions, neurodegeneration, and ...

Researchers have designed a chemical probe to bind damaged mitochondrial DNA, halting the enzymatic processes that lead to ...

This newly developed chemical probe not only repairs mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) but also protects it from damage. Like a ...

To help move the therapy toward clinical use, the researchers also tested the efficacy of delivering the mitochondrial base editors in mRNA form, rather than as DNA, and within lipid nanoparticles ...

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these mutations cause serious diseases that pass down only through mothers.