An inert and unreactive gas may not seem like an obvious candidate for treating Alzheimer's disease, yet a new study in mice ...

The amateur mountaineers will pay over $150,000 per head to climb to the roof of the planet, given over to the promises of ...

Climbing techniques have evolved over centuries, often creating controversy and debate. The use of acclimatization methods to expedite expeditions lies at the c ...

Lukas Furtenbach explains why using Xenon to help climb Everest in a week is a new tool but is really no different than ...

Acclimatiztion Climbing high requires physiological adjustment. Humans were not designed to live at altitudes pushing 8,000 meters – the Death Zone. But our bod ...

Could inhaling xenon gas help fight Alzheimer’s disease? In the January 15 Science Translational Medicine, scientists led by Oleg Butovsky at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and David Holtzman ...

In a trial featuring a mouse model of Alzheimer's, scientists found that inhaling a mixture containing xenon gas helped ...

If one was transported to the top of Mt. Everest by plane and dropped off, they would quickly lose consciousness and die. The process intended to counter the effects of reduced oxygen is referred ...

Encouraged by these results, they are starting a clinical trial of xenon gas in people. Lukas Furtenbach, a mountain guide and climber from Austria, who is helping Miller on his Everest challenge ...

Lukas Furtenbach, a mountain guide and climber from Austria, who is helping Miller on his Everest challenge, is convinced that inhaling the xenon gas mixture aided his rapid ascent of Aconcagua in ...

The study found that Xenon gas inhalation suppressed neuroinflammation, reduced brain atrophy, and increased protective neuronal states in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease. Results are published in ...