New mechanisms discovered that show how development-dependent disruptions in mitochondrial function lead to premature skeletal aging.

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

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Scientists at The Jackson Laboratory have discovered how aging blood stem cells acquire mutations that give them a growth ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the African humid period. This population had been long isolated from other ...

Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study spanning a million years of mammoth evolution.

Most experts believe Parkinson's disease is a result of some combination of genetics and environmental factors ... They found that when mitochondria got too big, their mitochondrial DNA leaked out ...

The POLG gene regulates the production of DNA polymerase gamma, an enzyme that copies mitochondrial DNA. Without it, the mitochondria cannot function normally and, as a result, fail to provide the ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have discovered how a group of proteins linked to Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis act as "guardians" of mitochondria, small ...