Unrelated virus. (Heather Davies/SPL/Getty Images) Some pieces of our DNA can copy themselves into new locations. Copies derived from one gene active in human brain cells appear to have taken that ...

New research reveals mitochondrial DNA copy number links to cancer severity and therapy response. The study found that higher ...

New research in The FEBS Journal links mitochondrial DNA copy number in cancer cells to mutational load, tumor growth gene expression, and chemotherapy response, suggesting mtDNA may shape cancer ...

Two devastating movement disorders, Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy, often look so similar in the clinic that ...

Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) was developed to identify pathogenic DNA copy-number changes (e.g., duplications, deletions) on a genome-wide scale, and to map these changes to genomic ...

Mitochondria are small organelles within cells that play a central role in vital cellular processes, especially energy ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

Understanding the relationship between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and animal growth could provide valuable information for selective breeding in aquaculture. However, the complex interactions between ...

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Using SNP-CGH to Profile for Amplifications, Duplications, and Deletions The beginnings of personalized medicine have been forged by recent advances in SNP genotyping technologies. It is now possible ...