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 ... enzyme defects are thought to cause the disease by interfering with the body’s ability to produce energy in the mitochondria. Around one in36,000 people are ...

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, ...

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

Because it keeps our bodies and organs from functioning as they should, supplemental oxygen helps when chronic lung disease or respiratory ... are things like Leigh syndrome, Friedrich’s ataxia ...