A transgenic approach allows researchers to collect the organelles from specific cells in nematodes with unprecedented efficiency.

Adding a fusion gene to certain mitochondria in C. elegans enables researchers to collect and analyze them.

The findings contradict what has been observed in humans.  

In response to short DNA fragments, lymphocytes release mitochondrial DNA that helps trigger an immune response.

Mitochondrial DNA in Neanderthal bone suggests humans first left Africa earlier than previously thought.

Pronuclear transfer can reduce the risk of transferring defective mitochondria, a study shows.  

Rick Harrison, an evolutionary biologist known for his research on speciation, has passed away at age 70.

Experts from the US National Institute of Medicine outline their conditional approval of clinical research on mitochondrial replacement techniques.

And too few insights gleaned from them

Assessing mtDNA mutations among healthy people; heritability of intelligence; epigenetic inheritance of maternal malnutrition markers; consumers buy into DNA ancestry