Scientists are designing a new type of drug that mimics the physiological benefits of breathing in thin 'mountain air'.

For the average person, living at high altitude-where oxygen is sparser than at sea level-can have health benefits ranging ...

Scientists at Gladstone Institutes have developed a drug that mimics the effects of breathing low oxygen. In mice with Leigh ...

Leigh syndrome is a severe genetic disorder that ... by interfering with the body’s ability to produce energy in the mitochondria. Around one in36,000 people are born with the condition.

A number of clinical syndromes are currently believed to be associated with mitochondrial disease. Possible examples include Pearson syndrome, Leigh syndrome, progressive external ophthalmoplegia ...

Diagnosed with a mitochondrial disease (Leigh Syndrome) in 2014 with other diagnoses to follow, Alexis, 15, has had to adjust to a reality unfamiliar to most peers – using a wheelchair to get around, ...

We used chemicals to induce mitochondrial toxicity ... Some of these disorders are things like Leigh syndrome, Friedrich’s ataxia, and some of them go by abbreviations such as MELAS.

Researchers from the Mitochondrial Medicine Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have better characterized a ...