Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The four Xenon-assisted climbers have succeeded in completing an Everest expedition in under a week. They touched down at London's ...

Rather than taking weeks or months, climbers are trying to summit Everest in just 7 days by inhaling xenon gas. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dr. Peter Hackett, a pioneer in altitude research. Four ...

IF YOU COULD scale Everest and back in less than a week, would you do it? That's exactly what a British expedition did, with the potential assistance of a secret ingredient: xenon gas. Right now, ...

Scientists are investigating xenon gas as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s. Westend61/Getty Images Lukas Furtenbach, a mountain guide and climber from Austria, who is helping Miller on his ...

Experts are hopeful that inhaling xenon gas could be a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, as clinical trials are set to begin. Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating illness that affects not ...

All four members of the Furtenbach Adventures team who prepped for their climb by hypoxic training at home and breathing Xenon gas, summited Everest today, five days after leaving the UK. They now ...

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 ...

An inert and unreactive gas may not seem like an obvious candidate for treating Alzheimer’s disease, yet a new study in mice suggests that xenon might just be the breakthrough we need. The new study ...

Most treatments being pursued today to protect against Alzheimer's disease focus on amyloid plaques and tau tangles that accumulate in the brain, but new research points to a novel -- and noble -- ...