Recent research has shed light on the complex processes that cells use to maintain the quality of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) ...

Integrative and Comparative Biology, Vol. 59, No. 4 (October 2019), pp. 983-993 (11 pages) Despite wide-ranging implications of selfish mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) elements for human disease and topics ...

(Nanowerk News) For many processes important for life such as cell division, cell migration, and the development of organs, the spatially and temporally correct formation of biological patterns is ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an eye condition that can be genetic. In this way, people usually need to inherit two copies of a genetic variation that causes RP, one coming from each parent. RP may ...

Von Willebrand disease (VWD) is a bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot as it should. Usually, people have VWD due to their genes, which may come from a male or female parent. Blood ...