U.S. researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have discovered a way to purposefully alter the genome of mitochondria, something we haven't known before.
The discovery is an important turning point in genetic engineering and opens the door to both deeper research on mitochondria as well as the treatment of diseases caused by defective specimens.
Mitochondria produce energy that drives our bodies, and they are also interesting because they have their own genome, which is inherited by the eggs, that is, by the mother.
At the same time, the latter means the possibility of familial transmission of genetic defects, and medicine knows over 150 related syndromes, which affect several thousand children a year in the United States, for example.
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