suspects of crimes and in paternity testing. It's also the one used to identify the remains of victims of the September 11th attacks. The other approach analyzes mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA.

An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women.

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 ...

While it's not common, there have been a few documented cases where scientists think they've found traces of paternal mitochondrial DNA in adults. For instance, one case involved a 28-year-old man ...

What happens to your cells when this DNA mutates? Similar to the nuclear genome, the mitochondrial genome is built of double-stranded DNA, and it encodes genes (Figure 2). However, the ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Earlier human studies using human polyploid embryos generated by IVF only detected paternal mtDNA up until the eight-cell stage of development.

1). Mitochondrial DNA is a portion of the genome that is not contained in the fertilized egg cell's nucleus, where maternal and paternal genetic material fuse. It is instead found in the ...

Reporting December 20 in Science, researchers led by Huan Ma of Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou, China, describe a tight coupling between neuronal excitation and the transcription ...