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 Syndrome—the most common childhood mitochondrial disease—the HypoxyStat ...

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 ...

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.

For 95% of its energy, the brain is reliant on the metabolism of glucose in the mitochondria. It has long been known that impairment of glucose metabolism occurs in the early stages of Alzheimer's ...