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

An SCD patient in Bahrain received the gene-editing therapy Casgevy, marking the first time the treatment has been given outside the U.S.

Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, ...

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 joint study between the Institute for Environment and Energy, Technology and Analytics (IUTA e. V., Duisburg, Germany) and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany) explored the combination of ...

Air pollution and vitamin B12 deficiency are emerging as major causes of India's rising anaemia crisis, beyond iron ...

Our immune systems rely on iron to function, but so do invading viruses and bacteria. New research from Binghamton University ...